The Postal Service - Nothing Better

"Nothing Better" from The Postal Service’s 2/18/03 released album, Give Up
Available on vinyl, cassette & digital at Sub Pop’s Mega Mart

And the 4/9/13 released Deluxe Edition of Give Up (available on CD, LP, Digital)

[newjoy]

"Your heart wont heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures" hit different now that I am older.

[CaptainPajamaPants]

This was my jam in high school. Trying to explain it to people was also my favorite thing.

"Imagine a guy singing to a girl who broke up with him and the girl is telling him that the relationship was never what he remembers it as, but with Mario sounds as the backing music."

[Jeanalife]

My husband passed two weeks ago and this used to be his favorite song. I love you much my love ❤

[BookerKaden]

I remembered when my mom used to play this album, mostly this song in particular, in the car all the time when I was a kid, it was the early 2000s and my dad had divorced her, I grew very attached to this song and enjoyed it but didn't think about the lyrics too much because I was naive. I'm in my 20s now and re-listening to this for the first time in many years and now have a better understanding of the lyrical concept, it made sense to me why my mom used to always put this song on at the time. It's kind of saddening now I fully understand the relation between this song and my mom's feelings over the divorce, but I'm also glad she introduced me to this band and be a part of my childhood. So thank you, mom.

[kevinsmith]

I think my favorite part of this song is that during his verse, there are not many effects. However, during her verse, there are so many effects. Subtle symbolism that expresses who feels empty after the breakup.

[jasminnimsaj]

hey - to the stranger who told me to check this band out! you weren't bothering me. thank you.

[richardhuaaa]

I love this song because of the strong characters and the subtle humor. The male's hyperbolic professions of his pain ("will someone please call a surgeon? who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart") are just so perfectly contrasted to the female's over-the-top logical attitude to the situation ("I've made charts and graphs that will finally make it clear; I've prepared a lecture, for why I have to leave"). Many of us have been on both sides of this situation, but seeing it from an external perspective really gives it a lightness that is both unfamiliar and refreshing.

[martincruz]

Listened to this song when I got my heart broken as a teen, and now here I am in my 30s listening to this a divorced man 😔

[Dottor_J]

Probably my favorite of the album. 1:30 I just love how she comes in with the violins

[oomel]

Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That you're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over
And I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry

So just say how to make it right
And I swear I'll do my best to comply

Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?

I feel I must interject here
You're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself
With these revisions and gaps in history
So let me help you remember
I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear
I've prepared a lecture on why I have to leave

So, please back away and let me go
I can't my darling I love you so
Oh, oh

Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?
Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

I know that I have made mistakes
And I swear I'll never wrong you again
You've got a lure I can't deny
But you've had your chance so say goodbye
Say goodbye

[pixies]

i listen to this song when i workout. the pain of lifting weights could never match the pain of being dumped.

[SoulshineKitty]

When you used to listening to this on highschool…. And me you’re 32. ❤

[leleedler]

Who would've thought that a song could produce so many mixed emotions. I love this song so much.

[vijaynair]

One of the best love songs ever written!

[donaldstill]

Her voice overpowers his. She’s the final say. Real life shit

[ericfoster]

Jenny Lewis is one of my absolute favorite song writers/performers and having her on this song just makes it that much cooler in my mind. She’s seriously the coolest

[weilandiv]

When I got divorced in 2004, it was The Postal Service which helped me through it all. I made 3 great friends that year also. We called our group, the Going Postal Service.

[slewke]

when this album came out i was blown away. There were no genres like this. this song especially stuck with me. now 16 years later going through grown up bull shit and just breaking up from a long committed relationship, this song is too accurate. this dude is all fumbling around grasping at one more chance, talking about how perfect things can be. then she breaks in and snaps him back to reality, how it really was. i go to win back my ex girlfriend and she got charts and graphs and shit. i do revise the history and have gaps in my memory about shit i pulled. this is such an incredible song from an amazing album from a fun time in my life

[EonarOWNS]

Used to listen to this from my iTouch with skullcandy earpods in high school 2011… now I’m 27 and those first 15 seconds takes my breath away every time. Life is a trip.

[butterflies]

its amazing how they turned letters in to such beautiful music. i just wanna cry. my big brother introduced me to this song\band. i miss him