The Best of Me (feat. Michael McDonald) - Toad the Wet Sprocket

By george perilli and michael mcdonald Child, as I look in your eyes You know my life seems like a minute There I find living proof Of all the wonder life hold in it In the past I thought I had to learn Any good that comes from this life we're living Here and now, let us realize That this life's gift and it's already been given Chorus: Someday when you stand in the middle Like it or not you're gonna look both ways You're gonna find that time is a riddle Where days turn into years And years into the blink of an eye Child, once I saw a man on the tv Lead a nation up a mountain He said, children, look over yonder The flame of truth is burning brightly Sometimes you look so far, there's only so much time Only so many of us are gonna get there Here and now is all we really have But if we can make it count We got no reason to worry Chorus: You're gonna walk that mile You're gonna be in that number You're gonna make that journey Just like the good book says There's a time to be born, a time to cross over You can be sure it's in the blink of an eye

A boy is born in hard time Mississippi Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty His parents give him love and affection To keep him strong moving in the right direction Living just enough, just enough for the city... His father works some days for fourteen hours And you can bet he barely makes a dollar His mother goes to scrub the floor for many And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny Living just enough, just enough for the city... His sister's black but she is sho 'nuff pretty Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy To walk to school she's got to get up early Her clothes are old but never are they dirty Living just enough, just enough for the city... Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many His patience's long but soon he won't have any To find a job is like a haystack needle Cause where he lives they don't use colored people Living just enough, just enough for the city... Living just enough... For the city... His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty He spends his love walking the streets of New York City He's almost dead from breathing on air pollution He tried to vote but to him there's no solution Living just enough, just enough for the city... I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow This place is cruel no where could be much colder If we don't change the world will soon be over Living just enough, just enough for the city!

I've got this somethin' to tell you There ain't no doubt in my mind All I'm askin' is to keep you near forever Just 'till the end of time Baby, I know where love grows My heart is overflowin' You're so fine and so true I wanna spend my time, spendin' time with you, baby I've got the best of love With every breath and every beat of my heart You know you've got me by my deepest emotion 'Cause you keep givin' me the best of love Passion and sweet inspiration So rare and so hard to find You are my journey and my destination Queen of this heart of mine Baby I know where love grows In my life it's overflowin' You're so fine and it's so true I know I've got it all, all because of you, baby I've got the best of love With every breath and every beat of my heart You know you reach into my deepest emotion And you keep givin' me, the best of love With every moment that passes by This love goes on It keeps growin' stronger And the more we're together The best keeps gettin' better, baby I've got the best of love With every breath and every beat of my heart You know you're down inside my deepest emotion So just keep givin' me, the best of love I've got the best of love With every breath and every beat of my heart Ain't nothin' finer than that sweetest emotion Just keep givin' me, just keep on givin' me The best of love, best of love, babe Ain't nothin' finer than that sweetest emotion Keep on give me Best of love,best of love,best of love,baby It's nothing better Best of love Keep on givin' me,keep on givin' me

Are you given vision, are you second sight? Are you older than your life? Eighty days of sorrow, endless more in sight Still you, child, burn bright And you see me crying again And you hold out your little hand Led me shaking to his room I thought I'd never see again Close the door behind you, turning out the light Press a flashlight up against the wall You say "This is how we knew him In a little egg It opened up and this is daddy now." Now you're stepping back towards me Till the room is bathing in light And the answer there before me There's no ending when we die Are you sleeping here beside me? Are you shining bright as the sky? Are you breathing now inside me? There's no ending when we die

I find my brother in there Deep in my heart I find my brother in there Hold in my arms I love you And if I seem too quiet now There are no words To tell you how I love you I often feel Like the prodigal son Take all I need Giving back none Our beauty shows In such different ways You're like the light behind the fog So soft But still you burn my eyes away I find my brother in there Deep in my heart I find my brother in there Hold in my arms I love you And if I seem too quiet now There are no words to show you how I love you So much has changed And so much has happened these years But still I find that you Are waiting here We have a bond That nothing can change And still I find A peace of mind Whenever I hear your name And if I seem too quiet now There are no words to show you how I love you

Been waiting to find You could've been happier given the time If he'd make up his mind You'd give yourself to anybody Who would cross that line And it was never a question He was crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there Get over, regrets While you were sleeping with the angels He was under the bed And the more skin that you shed The more that the air in your throat will linger When you call him your friend And it was never a question He was crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there Staring at a cold little hand Reading fault lines of a shell of a man You were waiting for a word from above Wouldn't you know it? No, answer ever did come And it was never a question You were crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there And it was never a question You were crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there

Here I need your help Deliver me from myself Take me where i'm wanted Or make me someone else I don't care what they said Forget about the things you read It was something you'll never know Never see Never understand Just leave it now, if you can... Tell me, when they come for you Who will there be to speak? And when they come for you Who will there be left to speak for you? Final Solutions back in style We are the ones, letting it ride I never dreamed we were so blind Amnesia in comfort So unkind Tell me when they come for you Who will there be to speak? And when they come for you Who will there be left to speak for you?