Better Now (Collective Soul song)

"Better Now"
Single by Collective Soul
from the album Cursed: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Youth
B-side"General Attitude"
ReleasedJanuary 24, 2005 (2005-01-24)
Length3:14
LabelEl
Songwriter(s)Ed Roland, Dexter Green
Producer(s)Ed Roland, Dexter Green
Collective Soul singles chronology
"Counting the Days"
(2004)
"Better Now"
(2005)
"How Do You Love"
(2005)

"Better Now" is a song by American alternative rock band Collective Soul, released as the second single off their sixth studio album, Youth (2004), on January 24, 2005. It was written by singer-guitarist Ed Roland and producer Dexter Green. The coda features a saxophone solo. In concert, this is replaced with a guitar solo. The radio edit version also includes a guitar solo.

Jason Damas of PopMatters described the song as "a big, energetic pop hook set to a Cars-ish, robotic grind, and is spiked with a colorful layer of horns for color." "Better Now" failed to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 117 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.