Better Off Dead Lyrics - Randy Newman

When you fall in love with someone 

Who does'nt love you 

Someone who treats you so badly 

It ramifies your head 

Someone who doesn't want you 

But won't let you go 

Someone who thinks you're crazy 

And tells you so 

Over and over and over 

If this happens to you 

You'd be better off dead 

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You might be surprised to learn how often it can happen 

In a love affair 

(And boy does it hurt) 

You fall in love with someone for whom you really care 

And they treat you just like dirt 

They make you feel kind of dirty and flirty 

Hey I'm talking to you 

Didn't you hear what I said? 

Better off dead 

Than living with someone 

Whose every word's like a knife cuts through you 

Better off dead 

Than living with someone 

Who just doesn't give a shit what happens to you 

You know that's wrong 

But you go on and on 

Better off dead 

Better off dead 

Better off dead 

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When you fall in love with someone 

Who doesn't love you 

You better run for daylight 

Just as fast you can (Little man) 

Forget your foolish dreams and schermes that things will 

work out in the end 

Put some real mileage between yourself and the object of 

you love my friend 

Or become what you see 

Yes, a loser like me 

Someone who'd be 

Better off dead 

Better off dead 

Musically, this one has a sort of overblown, heavenly quality to it. But lyrically, it's another story of a guy getting himself into a bad relationship that he can't get out of. He says, "When you fall in love with someone who doesn't love you/ Someone who treats you so badly it ramifies your head/ Someone who doesn't want you but won't let you go/ Someone who thinks you're crazy and tells you so, over and over and over/ If this happens to you, you're better off dead." It's exaggerated, but there's a kernel of truth there for so many people. You don't know what bad is until you feel that. I know what I'm talking about because I was once a woman who loved too much. 

I know some critic is going to think I don't know what the word ramify means, or how to use it. made up an alternate verb form of it here, like a made-up R&B word, like the "puppetudes" of love. wanted to say how there would be ramifications from something that happens to your head in this kind of a relationship. I should've said "blamifies" or something to make it really obvious I was playing with the word, but I just didn't give a fuck.