If you’ve listened to The Best this song will be familiar. The Best was arranged and produced by John Vallins. John heard it as a ballad with a killer sax solo. He did a fabulous job that I can’t hope to match.
This version is closer to what I had in my head when I wrote the song. It’s more folk-rock and includes the bridge that was left out of John’s version. It’s not an attempt to make a better recording, it’s simply a different approach. I think this is possibly the best song I’ve written so far. I wanted to see what I could do with it.
Best That I Knew How
Verse 1:
We started talking about nothing at all
we shared a bit of something and I started to fall
A little bit in love I guess I answered a call
Made her more than a friend
So we got married in a rush of youth
Feeling so free, playing fast and loose
I always meant well you know that’s the truth
But I stuffed it up in the end
Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it’s simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I’d known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I’d like to think that whatever I did I did the best that I knew how
Verse 2:
We brought you home your mum and me
You entered our house turned two into three
So I went to work thought my job was to be
Bringing home big buckets of security
Who knew back then what a father should be
Who knew what a little boy or girl might need
I learned too late what I needed to see
More than anything you needed more of me.
Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it’s simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I’d known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I’d like to think that whatever I did I did the best that I knew how
Bridge:
That’s not to say that I didn’t try
That’s all I ever did and that’s no lie
If I didn’t live up to the standards I had
I never thought that I was doing all that bad
The only life I’ve known has been in my own skin
I’ve never been the man I wish I’d been
Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it’s simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I’d known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I’d like to think that whatever I did I did the best that I knew how
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