The Best That I Can Do

No picture here besides the one painted in the lyrics.  This is a recently completed song about being far away from home, from where your heart is.  Though "The Best That I Can Do" involves a relationship, the idea reminds me a bit of Jason's situation.  I got to thinking how hard it would be to pick up and leave everything, the only things, you've ever known.  That's not to say I don't see the glorious upside, I am after all, very nomadic by nature, but no one ever said change was easy.  Part of what drives me now is wanting to make it so as to validate Jason's risk.  He is passionate (sometimes defensive!) about music and I deeply respect and appreciate that.  This is how I might feel if I picked up moved far away, leaving someone I care about far behind.

The Best That I Can Do

Susanna I woke up late again today

There just ain't nothing getting me out of bed

It hurts sometimes to open my eyes

As wide and bright as yours

The things I cannot face head on

I prefer through this blur

And thats the truth, Ma

Thats the best that I can do

Maybe you'll be there if I do come back

Maybe you won't though, I'll just count on that

I know it gets real hard

I know that weight ain't light

Believe me if I could I would

Be with you every night

And you've not been true

But thats the best that you can do

Lady her hair hangs down, her lips I long to touch

As lonesome as I have been, I need it just as much

In my heart our love is strong

In my mind it fades

Lady says that you're the one

Who brings to me this pain

And yes that sounds true

Or I'm the best that she can do

Farewell I wish you love, if you should care to find

Your face is but a picture babe, a memory fair and fine

I won't be coming home

You won't be losing sleep

There is no use to try no more

No secrets for to keep

And all thats good, Ma

That's the best that we can do