Version 2 added a guitar track.  Added a rapid fade out at the end of the track.

Lyrics:
My dad was strapped down in a room
He was breathing through a vent.
A dire diagnosis
On the clipboard by his bed.

And I was lost and so confused
To find he’d spent all of his strength.
I wished I’d been there more.
I wish I hadn’t quit.

A counselor took me to the side
She said “Dry your weeping eyes.
“Your agreed to this 
Before you were even born.”

“Back when you were weak and small
Your parents safely held your thrall.”
And now your turn has come,
And you should not withdraw.

His soul sang

Chorus:
If this world of intermittent joy and sorrow’s
All we see before blink out of existence for infinity,
Will you sit and hold my hand so that my final dreams will be 
Of you and me before I must go face eternity?

Because you always were the best of me.
Just let me feel your warmth.
Hold my hand so I won’t be afraid
As I drift into the haze.

A mother sits inside a nursery .
Humming to her baby
Swaddled tightly with such care.
The purest love feeds him like air.

Many years away inside 
a clean, white room her baby cries.
He’s all grown up, 
and now he’s watching mommy die.

She drifts off to final sleep 
and dreams of him; his scent so sweet.
And now the circle is complete. 
And her spirit beckons as she leaves

Chorus

I tell my children that I love them 
several times every day.
I wonder if they know 
how deep these feelings sway.

So many things within my life 
that I have done in vain.
The only thing I’ve done 
That’s ever meant a thing is raising them.

Chorus: 2xs.

The Best of Me

Matt Cantrell