← more from
Polyvinyl Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Hell and High Water

from A Better Version of Me by Rainer Maria

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Better Version of Me via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $22 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Better Version of Me via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $8 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    11
    releases

    Get all 11 Rainer Maria releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, S/T, Anyone In Love With You (Already Knows), Long Knives Drawn, A Better Version of Me, Hell and High Water, Atlantic, Look Now Look Again, and 3 more. , and , .

    Excludes subscriber-only releases.

    Purchasable with gift card

      $60.80 USD or more (20% OFF)

     

lyrics

I’ve seen the girl who’ll pick up where I leave off. She’s already smoothing her hands for the pictures. I’ve seen her sorting through my memories. What’s sweet? What’s bitter? She wants what I can’t give her. I’ve seen the girl who’ll chew up what I bite off. She’s devising a better mouth just to kiss you. Any minute I’ll have to surrender to her wishes. What to take and what to set free? I wonder if she’ll miss me. I’ve seen the girl who’ll be brave when I run off. She’s been picking her fights like she knows how to win them. And I’ve seen her sorting through my memories. What’s sweet? What’s bitter? She wants what I can’t give her. And every time I try to get out of her way, the day’s full of kids giving you the finger and speeders gonna kill you on your tiny street. She wants to beat through all the hell and high water threatening what she believes. That’s when I know I should just drop everything and let her sing, she’s a better version of me. I’ve seen the girl who’ll remember what I’ve lost. She has never forgotten a name or a punch line. She is the one that I have chosen. I’m lost, but she’s found a better way to get ‘round. I tell myself you’re not a fool.

credits

from A Better Version of Me, released January 23, 2001

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Rainer Maria image

Rainer Maria Brooklyn, New York

contact / help

Contact Rainer Maria

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Rainer Maria, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now