The Best of Me may refer to:
"The Best of Me" is a rock song performed and composed by Canadian rock and pop artist Bryan Adams. released as the first track on Adams second compilation album, The Best of Me. The single was released in December, 1999 and became a hit single in Europe while ignored in the United States where it wouldn't chart on the Mainstream Rock Tracks or Billboard hot 100. "The Best of Me" peaked at 10 on the Canadian Singles Chart on 24 January 2000.
The Best of Me is an American romance novel, written by Nicholas Sparks.
While working on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, Dawson Cole is nearly killed in an explosion. He has a vision of a young woman while floating in the water. In the hospital, the doctor tells him he should have been killed from the fall alone. He survived in the water for hours. The next day, Dawson returns home after twenty years when he learns that his surrogate father, Tuck Hostetler has died. Tuck has a final wish he wants Dawson to carry out. When he arrives, Dawson is surprised that Tuck also arranged for Dawson's high school girlfriend, Amanda Collier, to join him. Tuck's intention was that Dawson and Amanda might rekindle their former romance. However, Amanda is now married.
Dawson, born into a notorious criminal family, committed petty crimes during his youth, mostly because he feared his family's retaliation. After being beaten by his father as a teen, he left home and moved into Tuck Hostetler's garage. Tuck, a local mechanic and recently widowed, forged a lifelong relationship with Dawson.
The Starting Line is an American pop-punk band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that formed in 1999.
In 1999, the band that would become The Starting Line was initiated in Churchville, Pennsylvania via an e-mail from guitarist Matt Watts to vocalist/bassist Kenny Vasoli. It asked if the then fourteen-year-old Vasoli, who was at that time in a band called Smash Adams, was interested in "Jamming and shit", as the message title read. Only a few weeks later, Vasoli found himself rehearsing with his future band-mates Watts, guitarist Mike Golla and drummer Tom Gryskewicz. That year, Smash Adams released a tape, Batteries Not Included. It had 7 songs, of which only 4 were mastered. One song from that tape was incorporated into another bands work, 5 Days Ahead. They used a Smash Adams song, Kathleen, in an intro that was set inside of a car with two people talking. It was playing faintly in the background. Soon, the band started touring under the name Sunday Drive, selling out home-made merchandise and a self-recorded demo cassette titled Four Songs. Their first official release was a three-way split with The Jimmy Tuesday Band and The Commercials contributing three songs each, released on KickStart Audio in 2000.
"Best of Me" is a song by Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter from his third studio album Under the Radar (2008). It was released as a CD Single and digital download on November 2008 as the second single from the album. The song charted in Switzerland. The song was written by Daniel Powter and Kara DioGuardi. It was produced by Linda Perry.
Powter would later record an alternative version of Best of Me with the lyric "Though it's not your favorite song" changed to "Even if it's not your favorite song" for his greatest hits album named after the song. The alternative version's lyrics would be then used with a slightly different tune and added backing arrangement for the 2012 version on Powter's fourth studio album, Turn on the Lights.
William Chan, a Hong Kong singer, recorded a cover version in Cantonese for his album in 2009. (Chinese name of the song: "今天終於知道錯")
Common Courtesy is the fifth studio album by American rock band A Day to Remember. Songs for the album were written mid-2011, with recording starting from early-2012 and going into March 2013, with mixing being handled in the same month. In between that time period, an unmixed version of "Violence (Enough Is Enough)" was streamed from the band's website in December 2012. The band then embarked on the Right Back at It Again Tour in March 2013, performing the new song "Right Back at It Again" at each show. From mid-August to late-September, the band released webisodes to tie-in with the album. The band performed another song that would appear on the album, "Dead & Buried", at each stop of the following House Party Tour, beginning in September 2013 and ending a month later.
A few months before the recording of the album started, in December 2011, the band was involved in a lawsuit with their label Victory, which had parts resolved a few days before the album's release. This lawsuit led to the band's initial digital self-release of the album on October 8, with a physical release following on November 25, featuring three bonus tracks. Common Courtesy charted at number 34 in the UK and number 37 in the U.S. and was met with generally favorable reviews, with critics praising the album's sound. "Right Back at It Again" charted at number 33 on the Alternative Songs and at number 40 on the Mainstream Rock Songs charts in the U.S, while "End of Me" charted at number 40 on Alternative Songs and at number 26 on Mainstream Rock Songs.
I've got to tell you something
You're not my first ever love
Men come and go I've noticed
But my first love's going strong
He swept me off my feet, strong
With melody and simple beat, strong
A touch and I feel complete
Music is my love you see, yeah
Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me
Without the beat I'm nothing
Without a song in my heart
I'd be a different girlfriend
But we're all here so lets start
The things he says are always true, start
He's never going to change his tune, start
And though you're still the boy for me
Music is my life you see, yeah
Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
There's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me
If someone held you with a gun
You know I'd make you number one
I need you both to get along
Music gets the best of me
Oh, my baby
You know you make me smile
But it's the music we're making
That's really driving me wild
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me