Best of Us
Words and Music © 2009 by Howard Ashby Kranz
1. Old Tom Dandy screwed up again – he trudges home coatless in the
howling wind
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.
Eric spots him crawling
across the ice – he hauls him indoors and dispenses some advice
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He says I’m not the best or the worst, but I’m saying
I’ve been where you’ve been
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.
Instrumental
verse
Tom says, Billie dumped me and I don’t blame her; she
says she feels like a lion tamer
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Who just got her head out, just in time to save her skin
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.
When Billie was young she
tried to right some wrongs; she got involved with some guns and
bombs
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And she hurt some people, but still she’s not sorry
for what she was then
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.
Instrumental
verse
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You put trust in humans and you get betrayed; but you
can’t just give up, you still have to play
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And you still got to go to the player who you know
might mess up again
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.
Jeremiah comes over, and Tom feels fear cause Jeremiah will say things you don’t want to hear
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And the brimstone hurts, but the burn leaves a place
where the healing begins.
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And the greatest beauty does not always have the
smoothest skin
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The best of us isn’t always the one with the fewest
sins.