The Best Of Me

There's a hand on my shoulder And it's pushing down on The light I knew before It all feels much heavier now I spent a lot of time thinking That it was all gonna come easy I lost touch with the ways I'd been working Learning how I was gonna get after it all But when the words don't come I've got nothing to fall on Then it feels like I'm losing But in a different way Than I have in the past before I was in control until now I thought it would be much simpler Less profound, something I could wrap my arms around Like the thoughts I was having two years ago now It took the best of me to let them lay her body down And I can't find a simple way to explain somehow Mmmm. Mmmm Then it feels like I'm losing But in a different way Than I have in the past before I was in control until now I thought it would be much simpler Less profound, something I could wrap my arms around Like the thoughts I was having two years ago now It took the best of me to let them lay her body down And I can't find a simple way to explain somehow Mmmm. Mmmm Well, I can't seem to hold it All the space I made left with my pride when it walked away And I wouldn't bet on it coming back today I'm always tellin' these sad stories About the ones who always let me down And the list just keeps getting longer the longer i'm around Sometimes I wonder if I should've stayed down in that southern town Where the air felt so thick I was afraid I might drown in it Mmmm. Mmmm There's a hand on my shoulder And it's pushing down on The light I knew before It all feels much heavier now