Better Man Lyrics

[Bridge]
She loved him, yeah
She don't want to leave this way
She feeds him, yeah
That's why she'll be back again


[Outro]
Can't find a better man (Can't find a better man)
Can't find a better man (Can't find a better man)
Can't find a better man (Can't find a better man)
Can't find a better...
Man

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Genius Annotation

“Better Man” is the eleventh track off Pearl Jam’s 1994 album Vitalogy.

Lead singer Eddie Vedder penned the song in high school. Though the meaning is theoretically up in the air, quotations from both Vedder and a number of sources lean toward this song being about a woman trapped in an unhealthy relationship. Whether her man is abusive, unfaithful, or perhaps even addicted to something, the woman about whom the song is about feels stuck in the relationship for one reason or another – hence her reticence to say or do anything. In the end, she’ll be back and commence with the cycle – predominantly because she doesn’t feel she can find a better man.

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What did Pearl Jam say about "Better Man"?
Genius Answer

Eddie Vedder told The Los Angeles Times Calendar in 1996:

Sometimes I think of how far I’ve come from the teenager sitting on the bed in San Diego writing ‘Better Man’ and wondering if anyone would ever even hear it.

Brendan O'Brien said Vedder was reluctant to record the song with Pearl Jam because he felt it was too pop:

One of the first rehearsals we did [for Vs.], they played it and I said, ‘Man, that song’s a hit.’ Eddie just went ‘Uhhh.’ I immediately knew I’d just said the wrong thing. We cut it once for Vs., he wanted to give it away to this Greenpeace benefit record, the idea was that the band was going to play and some other singer was going to sing it. I remember saying to Nick [DiDia], ‘This is one of their best songs and they’re going to give it away! Can’t happen!’ And we went to record it and I’m not going to say we didn’t try very hard, but it didn’t end up sounding very good … It took us to the next record, recording it two more times, before he became comfortable with it because it was such a blatantly great pop song.

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Slide Guitar
Lead Vocals
Mellotron
Engineer
Recorded At
Seattle, Atlanta & New Orleans 1994.
Release Date
November 22, 1994
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