Saving the Best for Last - Marc Cohn

How could I ever resist the pull? Ten thousand loves that could save my soul I tried, but you know I save the best for last Won't let your love, oh, become the past I don't need the coast; drive you from your home Swallow your pride deep, let it go I'm in the distance as a calling bell Into the future I am running I'm saving the best for last I'm waiting to turn the tide I'm saving the best for last I'm making up the time (saving the best for last) In the distance, there's a calling bell Into the future through the hounds of Hell I try into the fire, you're a falling star In your eyes, oh, I see it all How could I ever resist the pull? They told me love, it could save my soul I tried, but you know I saved the best for last I'm breaking away now I'm saving the best for last I'm waiting to turn the tide I'm saving the best for last I'm making up the time (making up the time) In the distance, there's a calling bell Into the future through the hounds of Hell I try into, you're a falling star In your eyes, oh, I see it all How could I ever resist the pull? They told me love, it could save my soul I tried, but you know I saved the best for last I'm breaking away now I'm saving the best for last (Could you follow me? Could you wait for me? Could you Come with me?) I'm waiting to turn the tide (Could you follow me? Could you wait for me? Could you Come with me?) I'm saving the best for last (Could you follow me? Could you wait for me? Could you Come with me?) I'm making up the time (Could you follow me? Could you wait for me? Could you come With me?) I'm saving the best for last I'm saving the best for last

Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon I see the passion in your eyes Sometimes it's all a big surprise 'Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love It's not the way I hoped or how I planned But somehow it's enough And now we're standing face to face Isn't this world a crazy place? Just when I thought our chance had passed You go and save the best for last All of the nights you came to me When some silly girl had set you free You wondered how you'd make it through I wondered what was wrong with you 'Cause how could you give your love to someone else And share your dreams with me Sometimes the very thing you're lookin' for Is the one thing you can't see But now we're standing face to face Isn't this world a crazy place? Just when I thought our chance had passed You go and save the best for last Sometimes the very thing you're looking for Is the one thing you can't see Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon Just when I thought our chance had passed You go and save the best for last You went and saved the best for last

(M-M-Maybach Music) Pray for the days when the failure was a phase Or hate was the case, but they tell you to your face The top came down so I never hit the brakes The bitches came out, so we the niggas they would chase Envy was the norm, we the children in the corn Black male, pickin' cotton, hustles came in different forms Started with the pies, real ones lost lives Such a dirty game, now my hand sanitized I buckled down in a Porsche Buttoned up, Tom Ford Head stay on a swivel, they want your boy in a morgue But fuck 'em, I want a war Butt fuckin' 'em, slow, raw Pertaining only to women, my lady know I'm a lord, Lord Forgive me for all my wrongs Killin' niggas for sneakers and shit that's said in a song Puttin' homies in check instead of puttin' 'em on I'm always put to the test, real ones finishing strong Fresh up out the gutter, nigga, yeah And I can never be them other niggas I don't come through blood niggas, a semi not on me Exchange words and shots with like ten of my homies And no matter what I do, I'm not good enough Drive-bys, blood splattered on my shoe, I'm not hood enough But why cry? I Waka Flocka Flame, hit your block up Thug life, it's in my veins, go dig Pac up I'm where Pac was, only difference, got my Glock up 'Cause I been shot up, it's time to balance out my chakras I'm not the same motherfucker that I used to be I'm H.E.R., acoustically, you niggas gon' get used to me I'm tired of niggas usin' me, abusin' me Usually, I make a call, get the windows knocked out your motherfuckin' eulogy Imagine niggas shootin' me, yeah, Compton was like a zoo to me I'm a lion, king of my jungle, that's why it ain't no gettin' through to me For my first album, early 2000s, I was with the foolery Outside the L'Ermitage, could've got Fab for all his jewelry Ain't even really know how to rap yet I was just a Click Clack vet' Go find my nigga AR and ask him, if you wanna fact check Y'all heard it first (y'all heard it first), I ain't even told Fab yet This might affect our friendship, nigga, I ain't even ask yet I ain't even have half of an Aftermath check All in Brooklyn with you and Clue on the corner with my 'rag just Hangin' in the wind, with the stainless in the Benz Brainless when it spins, and I aim it for all my friends That go for Ross too I brought a gun and some chalk too For openin' up doors, it cost a Maybach just to walk through And on my dark days, I walk inside a dark booth Speak what's on my mind, but they ain't ready for the hard truth You can't call yourself king when I taught you Brought you a classic for you and all your niggas to spark to I ought to, nah, fuck it 'Cause even Nikki Giovanni had James Baldwin to talk to So I get high, then I swan dive in a shark pool With the same red bandana, "Start From Scratch" part two Nas got the part, so I went and got the part too Snoop pulled the rag out, shit, I went and bought that car too That shit was hard too Run up on it while my son inside it, the .40'll spin your ass around like a barstool Let Jesus take the wheel, I step on the gas I'm one in a million like Aaliyah, I wish that she never crashed And I only made it this far 'cause I always knew the task Understood my greatness and over stood all the math I don't need your love or the credit, I always got cash And even now, my 2020 vision is somewhere in the past Who the next rapper murdered? Every month, a nigga pass But me, I'm still alive, I guess they saved the best for last

I was driving down Ninth Avenue As the sky was getting dark Didn't have nothin' else to do So I kept on riding to Battery Park I stepped out in the damp and misty night As the fog was rolling in Man said, "Last boat leaving tonight Is the boat for Ellis Island" As my feet touched solid ground I felt a chill run down my spine I could almost hear the sound Of thousands pushing through the lines Mothers and bewildered wives That sailed across the raging sea Others running for their lives To the land of opportunity Down on Ellis Island "What is this strange paradise?" They must've wondered through their cries and moans After all they've sacrificed Their faith, their families, friends and homes Then on the Inspection Stairs They were counted out or counted in Frozen while the inspectors stared Down on Ellis Island Now me I only stumbled in Just to wander around that empty hall Where someone else's fate had been Decided in no time at all And cases filled with hats and clothes And the belongings of those who journeyed far They're strange reminders I suppose Of where we're from and who we are But as the boat pulled off the shore I could see the fog was lifting And lights I never seen before Were shining down on Ellis Island Shining down on Ellis Island