Best Of Us

We were young in that borrowed car
Laughing hard at nothing at all
Windows down
Summer on our skin
Thought the road would never get this small

You moved out
I learned to stay
Paying bills
Putting dreams away
Still I find you in the kitchen light
Plastic cups
3 a.m
We were alright

If the best of us is in the rearview
If the brightest days already came and flew
I'll hold every second
Like it’s all I have to lose
If the best of us is in the rearview
Then these memories will have to pull me through
I won't let them fade
You’re the proof I made it here with you

There’s a box at the back of my closet
Ticket stubs and a torn old map
Smell of rain in a stadium parking lot
Your voice shaking when you said
“call me back”

Now the phone glows in an empty room
Different names
But it’s never you
I raise a glass to the kid I was
Fragile heart
But he still believed in love

If the best of us is in the rearview
If the brightest days already came and knew
I'll hold every second
Like it’s all I have to lose
If the best of us is in the rearview
Then these memories will have to pull me through
I won't let them fade
You’re the proof I made it here with you

Maybe growing up is learning
How to grieve the lives we don’t get back
But every laugh
Every late night
Stitches up the places that I lack
So if tomorrow feels too heavy
I’ll unfold that crumpled photograph
And say
“You did your best”
“And that’s enough to last”

If the best of us is in the rearview
If the brightest days already came and flew
I'll hold every second
Like it’s all I have to lose
If the best of us is in the rearview
Then these memories will have to pull me through
I won’t curse the past
It’s the light I’m walking to
If the best of us is in the rearview
At the end
What I have left is you

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ahh, ahh-ahh...)

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ooh, ooh-ooh...)

(Ahh, ahh-ahh...)

Words & music by Nikita Monday.