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The Best Part

from Odds & Ends by Our Twilight Pastime

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This song is probably the only unreleased track from the Terra Firma sessions. That CD basically rounded up all the music I'd recorded in the past year or so.

In fact, this was supposed to be the last song on Terra Firma. But then I wrote Small Tribute, and I felt that both of those songs were about the same topic (and I felt, and still feel, Small Tribute was the better of the two). So, in the end, The Best Part got the axe. Chris Fleming kept it on his iPod for a while because he really liked it (he may still have it on there). Looking back on it, I really don't think it's all that great of a song. The lyrics tried to tie together a couple poems of mine with some lines I liked and never did anything with, and I had written the music a while back but never put words to it. So the hodgepodge feel probably stems from it actually being a song that was jammed together.

I like to think of it this way: The Best Part is a beta version of Small Tribute, which attempted to squeeze the creativity out of me. Small Tribute just asked if I wanted to hang out, and I was like "sure!"

lyrics

Well, I'm gonna say that the best part of my life
is the part you're all in.
Without you here I'd have no answers
to my little problems with living.
And you're probably not surprised
'cause you solve them all the time,
so you're getting used to hearing this.
But it's my pleasure
to be redundant, and take some time
just to sing about it.

Don't you love those plans we make all the time
to accentuate our days?
When we're traveling around, or just hanging out,
or traveling out of state.
'Cause you're the tilt of my Earth
that brings about my many moods and varied seasons.
You've got me smiling and singing and writing and dreaming
through each and every one.

So this is just a small thanks wrapped up in a melody
for being able to shake the sun right out of me
like the broken flashlight that you know I am:
just trying to make the day brighter if I can.

Now I don't know where I would have ended up
if I didn't know you all.
But it'd probably be someplace less happy
with a gray that'd never seem to fall.

So I'm taking my time,
and I'm playing with words:
throwing memories into my bed.

And no matter where life takes us
this'll be the best fucking time we could've ever had.

And when we die, we don't know where we'll go
but I've got my faith, and I've got you all.
so I'm not too worried about aging,
because you're making this one shot at life
worth living.

So I'm saying "thanks."

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from Odds & Ends, track released January 1, 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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