Best Of Me

Photo Credit: Billy Clark

"Catch a glimmer and hold it like glass. Best of Me is equally a self imposed call for action as it is a cry for help. There are these moments in-between lying about your pain where you realize it might be on you. You can live your whole life thinking "nobody understands me," but the reality is, you never told them who you were. Authenticity was never actually harder, it only looked that way because of the distance you kept from it. DON’T STOP RUNNING—THIS TIME, FORWARD."

- Vienna Vienna

L Y R

I C S

It's not your fault

It's not your fault that I turned out the way I did

In a way, I've always been like this I hide behind the walls of my own shame I face myself in every single unbecoming way

I give it up

I give it up, I'm not the person I once was I know the parts of me you plan to cover up

Lose the picture, break the wooden frame I have come to terms that I might never be the same

[Chorus]

All this love wasted on me

It's so messed up '

Causе I know you want the best of me, but what about thе rest of me?

Praised for my mistakes

What I can't shake Is I know you want the best for me, but that just got the best of me

[Verse 2]

I'm not good at honesty, I keep lying to myself

I call it my disease that I don't bear to ask for help In a dream, I finally catch a pace, well In the day, it's always flowers at a grave

I'm paranoid

I'm checking windows, looking out for who I was I might not make it through the year, but I don't have a choice

I wish I had a choice

[Chorus]

All this love wasted on me It's so messed up

'Cause I know you want the best of me, but what about the rest of me?

Praised for my mistakes

What I can't shake Is I know you want the best for me, but that just got the best of me

• [Instrumental Break]
• [Outro]
• Will I ever be happy?
• Whatever the hell that means

I don't fit in the box that my body was shaped

I don't know who to be, but

I know what it takes

Will I ever be happy? Whatever the hell that means

James Barre (James Barre Music Publishing / These Are Songs of Pulse (ASCAP)) –

33.34%, Neil Ormandy (Ultra Empire Music - a division of Ultra International Music

Publishing LLC (BMI)) - 33.33%, Abe Dertner (Kobalt (ASCAP)) - 33.33%

• Produced by: Abe Dertner
• Recorded by: Abe Dertner
• Mixed by: Jeremy Hatcher

Mastered by: Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound

ATMOS Mix by: Seth Presant

Musicians / Instruments: Synthesizer, vocoder, additional acoustic guitar by Abe

Dertner; Acoustic guitar and vocals by James Barre

www.viennaviennamusic.com