Things Can Only Get Better

This isn't a song that I love because of the lyrics. While they are good, they are also not very meaningful. No. This is a song I love because of the memory it stirs. While I was at college, I got to represent the colleges Student Union at the National Student Union Congress, which is held every year in Blackpool. While SCAT, (Somerset College of Arts and Technology, yes I know it is an unfortunate acronym for it to be saddled with) was entitled to send as many as 5 delegates (based on how many students it had), only two wanted to go. My friend Marc Hawkins and myself. I still have the diary I wrote of the conference somewhere, one of these days I'll dig it out and type it up for the blog, but suffice to say for now, that it was several days of rhetoric and electioneering, most of which flew over my head. On the last night, there was a charity disco (I forget which charity it was in aid of), and this was the last song played of the night (and the first request made to the DJ). When it came on EVERYONE joined in. The place shook to the sound of 800 students, representing every age, colour, and creed of humanity that I know of, singing the lyrics, which while corny and overly repetitive, are full of hope. It is one of my fondest memories from those years, and this song will almost always get me on the dancefloor.

Things Can Only Get Better by D-Ream

You can walk my path
You can wear my shoes
Let her talk like me
And be an angel too
But maybe
You ain't never gonna feel this way
You ain't never gonna know me
But I know you

Teach you now that
Things can only get better
Can only get, can only get
They get on from here
You know, I know that
Things can only get better

I sometimes lose myself in me
I lose track of time
And I can't see the woods for the trees
You set 'em alight, burning the bridges as you go
I'm too weak to fight you
I got my personal health to deal with

And you say
Walk my path
Wear my shoes
Talk like that
I'll be an angel and

Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you
(That means me)
(Will you teach me now)
Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you
And you and you

You show me prejudice and greed
And you show me how
I must learn to deal with this disease
I look at things now
In a different light than I did before
I found the cause
And I think that you could be my cure

And you say
Walk your path
Wear your shoes
Talk like that
I'll be an angel and

Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you
(That means me)
(Will you teach me now)
Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you
Things can only get, can only get

Things can only get, can only get

Things can only get, things can only get

Things can only get, can only get
Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you
(That means me)
(Will you teach me now)
Things can only get better
Can only get better
Now I've found you