From the recording My Best (The Colin Manahan Mix)
CD Title: My Best (The Colin Manahan Mix)
Song Title: My Best (The Colin Manahan Mix)
Music & Lyrics by Dodd Michael Lede
Mixed by: Colin Manahan
Recorded by: Mike BBQ
Musicians:
Dodd Michael Lede, Landyn Lyerla, Bobby Tapia, James Metcalfe, Mark Prentice, & Shawna Cole
Lyrics
I was halfway home on the road to redemption
Looking in the rearview I could see your reflection
Calling out my name
Begging baby please
It's hard to make a stand when you're down on your knees
I was so strung out from another long winter
Searching for a youth that I just couldn't remember
Deeper and deeper to the depths of my soul
I was living in the moment I was losing control.
I exhausted all my options
Trying to make a brand-new start.
Every time temptation called my name
Well I'd just fall apart.
I gave my best
But I came up short
I tried to walk a straight & narrow path
That would lead me to your door
My one regret
I hope you know
Left an emptiness inside of me
That is swallowing me whole.
I gave my best.
Years & years of an endless obsession
Trying to hold on to my greatest possession
Hanging by a thread
Tightening my grip
The wind began to blow
Until I started to slip
The truth comes out in the strangest of places
Stares you in the face until you're weak & defenseless
Breaks you down until you give in
Scattering the ashes just like dust in the wind
Once upon a lifetime
Before everything went wrong
You're the only thing that's left in me
That keeps me hanging on.
I gave my best
But I came up short
I tried to walk a straight & narrow path
That would lead me to your door
My one regret
I hope you know
Left an emptiness inside of me
That is swallowing me whole.
I gave my best.
Once upon a lifetime
Before everything went wrong
You're the only thing that's left in me
That keeps me hanging on.
I gave my best
But I came up short
I tried to walk a straight & narrow path
That would lead me to your door
My one regret
I hope you know
Left an emptiness inside of me
That is swallowing me whole.
I gave my best.