PROVE YOURSELF

Released:
May 1992
Length: 2:24
Disc: Pablo Honey | Stop Whispering single CD2
Tablature: Guitar

Other Versions:
Demo Version - Drill EP
Live @ Black Session - Creep [Black Session EP]

The first official single by the band. It didn't do well... released only in the UK, it peaked at #101 in the charts. This song looks very seriously at suicide. Unfortunately, like most songs that become popular, the meaning tends to get lost in live performance: band members were shocked to witness hundreds of kids singing "I'm better off dead" night after night.

The version found on the Drill EP is a demo; a much better, clearer recording was used on Pablo Honey.

I can't afford to breathe in this town
Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand
Hooked back up to the cathode ray
I'm better off dead
I'm better off dead
I'm better off

Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself

I want to breathe, I want to grow
I'd say I want it but I don't know how
I work, I bleed, I beg and pray
But I'm better off dead
I'm better off dead
I'm better off

Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself

I'm better off dead
I'm better off dead
I'm better off

Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself
Prove yourself
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