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As Good As It Gets

from First Person Singular by Robin Tymm

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Can’t say I’ve been blessed in the looks department
But I’ve had my moments all the same
There was an instant back in the early nineteen-eighties
Never looked that good before and I never would again
Wish I had a photograph of how I looked back then

Don’t have money, never had none
Not saying I’ve always been this poor
‘Cause I have a statement from my bank a dozen years back
Showing numbers I’ve not seen since or before
It wasn’t much, now I’ve not got much anymore

CHORUS
This is as good as it gets, I bet I’ll never get it any better
Oh, but the sun’s soon to set, the moment never lasts forever
Some minute I’m top of my heap
Then I slip and I slide ‘cause the slope’s too steep
The one direction left for me is clear
Ev’ry step that I take is downhill from here

If my better days are all behind me
I just wish that I’d known it at the time
But I could only really see when it was over
I’d made the top then went on down the other side
I could never reach those peaks again even if I tried

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
I’ll understand if health and wealth are in the past now
And my looks for what they’re worth have been and gone
I’ll gladly let them pass me by, in truth my heights weren’t all that high
Just say that happiness and love are still to come

REPEAT CHORUS

© 2011 Robin Tymm
20th March 2011

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from First Person Singular, released November 10, 2018

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