The band is working up a new song called “best of me.” We might play it tonight if we feel like we have got it…..or if we have had 3 beers too many. I have some close friends of mine who over the past few years seem to be surrounded by heartache. They are really wonderful people undeserving of all of the terrible things that have happened around them. The often try and be the rock and hide their own pain so they can help others. I was thinking about them and when the first verse of this song came up. Basically, the idea was how long can we be a rock, how long can we “be there” for people, how long can we hide our own broken heart before finally crashing. The chorus is basically someone finally breaking down and crying out to God, their lover, their husband or wife, Jesus, the universe, whomever…..”you took the best of me and now there is nothing left of me.”
This is just a demo track recorded on a small recorder for band rehersals but check it out.
click below (morphine life link) to hear it.
http://morphinelife.com/?p=396
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Did you think I would never fall?
Like a mountain I would always stand tall
Did you think I was a stone?
That you could crash you words against my bones
Did you think I was lion, did you think I was a saint, did you think I was a statue without complaint
You took the best of me
And now there is nothing left of me
You seemed so surprised to see
That you took the best of me
Did you think I would never break?
Every wave I could embrace
Hold another dying hand
And not have my bleeding heart stain the sand.
Did you think I was ghost, did you think my skin was gold, Did you think I could lose so much and not grow cold
You took the best of me
And now there is nothing left of me
You seemed so surprised to see
That you took the best of me
Solo/bridge
Now I’m bleeding out
But I you’ll never hear me cry out
You took the best of me
And now there is nothing left of me
This world took the best of me
Were you too blind to see
That you took the best of me