The Best of Me
Album: Umbrella Man
By: Scott Albert Johnson
By: Scott Albert Johnson
Duration
3:33
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Description
This is the most autobiographical song I have ever written. I came up with the guitar motif and the beginnings of a lyric in the summer of 2005, not long after I was married and shortly before the birth of our first son (we now have another son and a daughter). It took me over a year to complete the lyrics; it was very important to me that I get it “right”. Finally, an image of a journey towards our shared future helped me complete the words. Randy Everett played a beautiful nylon-string gui...
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It’s a rainy night in America and I don’t know where I am I’m not the King of Anything… stuck in another jam It’s times like these when I look inside and I wonder what I see When the Man Upstairs doesn’t seem to care what will ever become of me But there’s a lady with a phone beside her pillow And there’s a little man staying up to watch TV And I think of you and everything is clear now It’s my job to give you the best of me Don’t know how I got here from the places that I’ve been This road has been the ruin of many better men I don’t know why it took so long for me to learn how to be strong And I don’t know how to disavow the things that I’ve done wrong But I’m learning how to see across the canyon Between who I am and who I need to be And you’re the ones who keep me standing on my feet now It’s your job – to keep getting the best of me So I’ll keep on singing songs around the Southland Songs about everything from A to Z And I’ll dream a time when all these rhymes add up to more than echoes And who knows – if we’re lucky – they just might set us free And you and he and I will walk together Anticipating all that’s yet to be ‘Til the day you both look back and remember ... ... I gave you the best of me
