[Intro – acoustic strum + bottle clink]
“Drink slow. Trust me.”
[Verse 1]
Road dust in my worn-out shoes,
Moonlight stains my hands in blues,
Every town’s got ghosts to feed,
Every ghost thinks it knows what I need
[Pre-Chorus – soft build]
I’ve learned the cure tastes sharp and strange,
Sugar lies, but bitter stays,
If you want to stand again,
You gotta swallow what won’t pretend
[Chorus – big folk-rock hook]
🧪 Bitter makes you better, drink it down,
Sweet won’t heal what cut you down,
I patch your heart, I stitch your crown—
You’re still alive, you’re still around.
Bitter makes you better, hold it in,
Burns the dark out under your skin,
If you wanna rise again—
Bitter makes you better.
[Verse 2]
Every scar’s a map I read,
Every lie’s a poison seed,
You pray to gods who never bled,
I make my cures from what’s half-dead
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Don’t thank me, I don’t save for free,
I trade in truth and honesty,
If you break, I’ll help you mend—
But you gotta want to stand again
[Chorus – fuller, with harmony]
🧪 Bitter makes you better, drink it down,
Sweet won’t heal what cut you down,
I patch your heart, I stitch your crown—
You’re still alive, you’re still around.
Bitter makes you better, hold it in,
Burns the dark out under your skin,
If you wanna rise again—
Bitter makes you better.
[Bridge – campfire harmony]
I don’t deal in perfect cures,
I deal in pain that still endures,
If the truth leaves a bitter taste,
It means you’re still alive to taste
[Breakdown – Super Activation Moment]
DRINK—
IT—
DOWN.
[Final Chorus – stomps + full band]
🧪 Bitter makes you better, drink it down,
Take the burn, don’t back it out,
Heal don’t mean you don’t bleed now—
You’re still alive, you’re still around.
Bitter makes you better, hold it in,
Every cure starts with discipline,
If you wanna rise again—
Bitter makes you better.
[Outro – fire crackle + cork pop]
“Hurts means it’s working.”
AsheTheHyena
