"The city remains to fall. No one is watching as you turn to go.
Is she really the one. Has she come here for me? Colors of her robe capture the sun. Her gaze saturates eternity."
(C)2020 The Best We Had
Izaak: Vocals/guitars/bass/percussion
Mark: Keyboards/percussion/vocals

egress

Get in the hot tub/teaching sexy school/get in the hot tub/Lee Majors cool/First bottle of Perrier/Miracles on eight track/Dance dance you cocaine freak/Tear up the shag/VD/Chablis
Go to the key party/Kick it up a notch/Polyester bells shadow your feet/Scratchin’ at your crotch/Grow that sexy mustache/Feather your hair/Snort lines til you shit the bed/Drink til you just don’t care/VD/Chablis
Love American Style/Rose and ‘ludes/Drive the Corvette to Tiburon/So fuckin’ smooth/VD/Chablis
Your urgent love smells like sauerkraut/Stumbling for words like you have mental gout/It’s the VD/Chablis...
Mark-vocals  Izaak-Vocals/Keyboard Backing track-Jefferson Starship
(C) 2020 The Best We Had

chablis

Plastic cars in a plastic world/Plastic boy for a plastic girl/Plastic food for a plastic face/Plastic sign for a plastic place/We’re all living in a latex age/Plastic gun for a plastic rage/We’re all living in a latex age
Fix your credit and act your age
Pornography/Booze and red meat/Cars on the street/The desert and the sea
Plastic cars in a plastic world/Plastic money ready to burn/Plastic truth on a plastic screen/Plastic sheets and plastic dreams/We’re all living in a latex age/Have a dream then give it away/We’re all living in a latex age/Botox your face and deny your age
72 inch screen/Perfect ass dreams/Cultural lobotomy/I’m in the stream...
Mark--bass synth/percussion/vocal  Izaak--Vocals/keyboards/guitar
(C) 2020 The Best We Had

Plastic version 2

Anaphylactic shock/GMO crops/Celebrity news and murderous cops
The bees sting us into another season, the bees sting is into another year.
You know it’s love when I’m watching you/You act scared but I know you like it too/I’ve seen under your skin/I've seen where life begins (and ends)
The bees sting us into another season, the bees sting us into another year.
How I love you lying there/Silent stare seeing nothing/How I love you lying there/I’m the only one who knows you
The bees sting us into another season, the bees sting us into another year.
Mark--Guitar/piano/organ Izaak--Vocal/bass/keyboards
(C)2020 The Best We Had

The Pathologist

The woods seem cold and dark tonight, but the stars are bright. And you don't want to go back to a place that doesn't feel like home. I think we're lost. No idea where we are. It's 3 a.m. and you're crying and there's nothing I can do. I know it doesn't matter I'd fall off the edge of the world for you.
The moon lights your driveway like a stage. And I don't want to leave you but I do anyway. I think we're lost, no idea where we are. We're both bare and broken hearts and you're as beautiful as the stars...
(C)2020 The Best We Had
Mark-keyboards/backing vocals Izaak--Vocals/guitars/synth drums

Stars V2

An angel must have sent you to me, a fallen angel. I asked the Lord to fill my heart, bring some light where it is dark. An angel must have sent you to me, a fallen angel, I've fallen angel.
I hate this town, all the memories surround make it hard to breathe. The places we went, the time we spent, you and me. It's gonna hurt a little bit more forever. Why don't you call? Did you care at all or was it just me? You left something black inside something left to die so casually.It's gonna hurt a little bit more forever, forever is home.
Mark: Piano, guitar, synth, sound effects 
Izaak: Vocal, piano (coda), synth strings, bass, kbd drums
(C) 2020 The Best We Had

Fallen

Recording done in Arizona around 2010.
Izaak--Vocals, live guitars and bass, building loops

Zak's Album

picture perfect

My attempt at a power ballad a few years back. Of course, I had to start it with a bunch of noise.

Izaak--Vocals, basses (nude and distorted), construction of loops

(C) 2020 The Best We Had

Town

The Best We Had is the continuing music project of Mark and Izaak.
Mark/Izaak: Music, Production, and Arrangements
Mark: Programming and Engineering
Izaak: Lyrics and Artwork
Recorded at Auldsoque Studios, Portland Oregon
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