Song Description
Striving for things in our lives and enjoying the journey of the ups and the downs.
Song Length |
5:54 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Alternative |
Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
Mood |
Poignant, Cool |
Subject |
Existence, Life |
Similar Artists |
Indigo Girls, Kate Bush |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Best Ones
I don?t ask for much
Just you everyday in my clutch
I can?t go on
I love your temples of gray
You?re so tall in a jiminy cricket kind of way
Your eyes want to reach out and grab me don?t they.
But you shut me up and I can?t move my mouth.
You?re raw, you?re corrupt, barely allowed
Alive this place that I want to live
Hungry for all you don?t give
Why are the best ones the ones you cannot keep
Skyscrape I to the rocks of glory to pray
They?re so tall in a mountains of sorrow kind of way
Inspired by the tragedy in magic on display
And it shuts me up, I can?t move my mouth
So raw so corrupt, barely allowed
Alive this place that I, that I want to live
Hungry for all I can?t seem to give
Best ones, why are the best ones
The ones you cannot keep.
When I was still youngish in my dreams
I?d search for low valley answers and hatch the simplest of schemes
No need to try hard bound solutions, there be no ??? and no illusions in my way
And I?d shake the trees till the ripest of fruit
Would fall at my feet in an elegant loop
I?d skate through this life with my passion and song
Escaping each knife every crash every wrong
Generous in goodness with a merciful hand
This was my business yes, this was the plan.
Best ones, why are the best ones, the ones you never keep.