Story Behind The Song

I was watching TV for the first time in a long time during a trip to Japan, and was overcome with the silliness of so much advertising and how we are tricked into thinking we need the craziest things that promise to make us "Better".

Song Description

A light-hearted but penetrating look into modern culture - with a killer hook! We're over-advertised and anaesthetized into thinking that our consumerism and technology wil make us....Better. Can it?

Lyrics

Better

There?s nothing like TV
To take away our memory.
There?s nothing like a cell phone
So we can never be alone.
There?s nothing like a video
To destroy our imagination.
There?s nothing like itself anymore, not anymore

There?s nothing like silicon,
Oooh baby, how those turn me on!
There?s nothing like collagen,
To interrupt your skin.
There?s nothing like nothing
I find between your ears
There?s no one like themselves anymore, not anymore

Chorus: ?Cause we trade in the real, so we don?t have to feel
We play charades, so we don?t have to deal
We?re always looking for something that?s better.

There?s nothing like a Gallup Poll
To determine what is right
There?s nothing like an honor roll,
When to get to the top you have to fight
There?s nothing like the brand new
And throwing out the old
Like Huxley?s Brave New World
Steel shelter from the cold
There?s nothing like itself anymore, not anymore

(Chorus)

There?s nothing like you, sweetheart
Ooh, you?re like clay to me.
I can mold you into any part
To fit to my own needs.
There?s nothing like an idol
Yeah, God is on my shelf.
There?s nothing like control
That won?t let anything be itself.
There?s nothing like itself anymore, not anymore

(Chorus)

We?re always looking for something that might just be, maybe it?d be, could it ever be?.
Better???