Gilbert, Brantley - The Best Of Me Lyrics






I found a box of memories,
Read a letter,
Dropped a tear where you signed your name,
And turning the page,
Smearing the ink into "Love Always."

Girl, I always start this way a
Nd then I end up in a bottle screaming out your name,
Punching the walls, carrying on like I've gone insane,

And in the mirror,
I can see the man who just shook his head with no remorse,
Watching an angel cry her tears,
Stepping over my beers as you walked out the door.

And there ain't nothing like a memory,
When it's coming on strong like a hurricane.
How can love like that just up and walk away?
Killing me baby.
It's got me pouring up another drink,
Bourbon's hitting me hard like a freight train,
With my back against the wall or on my knees,
When the worst of your memory gets the best of me.

Well, I remember it all too well, riding 441 down to Milledgeville,
Crossing the bridge as the sun set on Lake Sinclair.

I couldn't wait to see you smile,
But all I saw were tears in your pretty eyes and that said it all,
It was all downhill from there.
And I remember you saying, "Baby, please don't give up on me."
Oh my baby, this stubborn man is gonna lie in the bed he made.

'Cause there ain't nothing like a memory,
When it's coming on strong like a hurricane.
How can love like that just up and walk away?
It's killing me baby.
It's got me pouring up another drink,
Bourbon's hitting me hard like a freight train,
With my back against the wall or on my knees,
When the worst of your memory gets the best, the best of me.

Baby, there ain't nothing like a memory,
When it's coming on strong like a hurricane.
How can love like that just up and walk away?
Your killing me baby.
Got me pouring up another drink,
Bourbon's hitting me hard like a freight train,
With my back against the wall or on my knees,
When the words to your memory gets the best, the best of me.





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  1. A.... J....

    ♡♡♡

  2. M.... L....

    Baby , hold me...

  3. l.... s....

    Jason's way better sorry

  4. C.... B....

    Yi no akuturuku bɔ agor bi

  5. C.... B....

    S ne bɛyɔ ne bɛyɔ no a mɛyɔ deɛ ɔpɛ wɔ ne bɛyɔ no akuturuku ne bɛyɔ no akuturuku ne sɛ bɛ mu ne bɛyɔ a ne sɛ sɛ sɛ wo kɔ bi ase paa brɛ a na mede saa ntadeɛ ne sɛ bɛ mu akansie a ntaa tu kwan kɔ bi mpo da no no akuturuku mu ne adwuma ne bɛyɔ ne sɛ bɛ tumi nya nkodaa awa no a ne ɔya mani so u get off ne sɛ ne ho asɛm ne adwuma deɛ nipa ne sɛ sɛ sɛ wo nam fam a ne ɔya mirika kɔɔ baabi a ntaa tu ne ne sɛ sɛ sɛ bɛ bo me boɔ a ne sɛ sɛ sɛ wo nam fam na me pɛ sɛ me dɛ paa ankasa ankasa a ne adwuma a ntaa tu kwan paa ankasa ankasa a ne adwuma a mpɛ paa ne bɛyɔ no a ne adwuma ne adwuma deɛ ɔpɛ wɔ kurom hɔ he ne adwuma ne bɛyɔ ne adwuma a ntaa di bi mpo ne sɛ bɛ tumi ne adwuma ne sɛ sɛ bɛ mu akansie a ne adwuma a ne ɔya yɛ 6

  6. A.... K....

    One of the best new country singers

  7. J.... C....

    ......💔💔💔💔....

  8. D.... C....

    #BRANTLEY. #GILBERT. **THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF MY EX, LINDA. I AIN'T SEEN IN 11 DAMNED YEARS. WE WERE TOGETHER FOR 6 1/2. YEARS. SHE WAS BETTER TO MY TWO BOYS THEN THERE DADS. OH WELL, THANKS FOR WRITING THIS BRO**🔥👍

    D.... C....

    **I LOVE THIS SONG**

  9. C.... F....

    Right! This was the Brantley I first liked !

  10. B.... G....

    I lost someone yesterday now all I have is memories I never said by or anything I'm so sad I'm just a disappointment

  11. E.... L....

    5/10/18 love you baby soulmate for life.true love always and forever

  12. J.... T....

    Jason Aldean did this way better

  13. C.... B....

    I love this song , it sounds like the sound track to my life for about the past 21yrs , I still love her and miss her everyday and her memory definitely gets the best of me , I would give anything for things to go back to the way they were back then the best time of my life , but she's moved on now and is very happy and successful in her career, she is definitely better off without me now , now I'm just stuck with the memories and still keeping the promise I made to love her the rest of her life , that promise still means something to me even if it don't to anyone else......

  14. M.... H....

    love this song been divorce now three years and your right memories are always there especially after thirty years love it all your songs cant wait to see u in jacksonville fla hell yes best show on earth

  15. m.... R....

    Kyle Taylor

  16. m.... R....

    Daniel Smith.

  17. m.... R....

    Crystal Glover.

  18. m.... R....

    God I hope

  19. J.... N....

    I go to this song time to time! It reminds me of my finance & son that got killed in a car wreck!! I love you Wesley & Jessica <3

    J.... N....

    B Naylor Damn bro, sorry to hear bout your loss. No man should have to bury their family! Stay strong bud!

    J.... N....

    Shawn Ullery Yeah man it wasn’t the greatest feeling ever but I try to stay the strongest I can and take it day by day!!

  20. J.... C....

    Something that I’ve noticed is the BG is one of the truest country singers of all time. When he has a song like this you can hear the pain in his voice. There are two sides to him. This one is slow and the kind you listen to at 3Am and the other one is the kind you crank up at a party because it’s that badass

  21. A.... L....

    You dont know how u hurt her till u be hurt wen she walks away u dont know what ur got till it's gone an were u was a bitch wen he was drunk ur someone else's angel sober or drunk my heart can't take the pain I have been feeling the worst of his memories get the best of me an that's wen he would drink an beat me for no reason lord knows I loved him to death but I can't take it anymore

  22. A.... L....

    There ain't nothing like a memory but wen love gets tired an ur heart can't take no more an you have to walk over those beers cause that's wat he chosen over you then u got to let him lay in the bed he made hard for his self let it kill him like he killed ur heart but you still have those memories that fuck with you ever once in awhile

  23. E.... V....

    All I have is pic's of me and you. It hurts to much to think of all we never got to see. 5/10/18 RIP Melissa

    E.... V....

    Cherish those pictures friend. Ive lost 2 loves n my life one committed suicide my sons biological dad @ my 1st true love who passed suddenly. I have pictures n my head a few on my phones but my albums both my angels kept. Its bn 25yrs Mike's gained his wings 5 since Richard gained his wings. I dont have pictures.of us 2gatheri still see them both in my head heart. What id do 2 have more memories. R.i.p both cn you both at heavens gate. Arms wide open!!!

  24. M.... H....

    this song remind me and my ex of 28 years been divorce now 3 years and my life has changed so much since then now taking care of my ill father but i still love my ex he will always be on my life i hope thanks brantley for your songs you help me through more stuff then anyone can imagine

  25. H.... L....

    I gave it everything and he gave it to everyone else... 7 years later i still love him and he cant let me go but im tired of wearing heartbreak...

  26. j.... n....

    when the worst of his memory gets the best of me i couldn't wait to see his smile but all i seen was tears in his pretty eyes and that said it all it was all down hill from there .

  27. l.... w....

    This is my team player, he's my star player ,my prince an I'm their princess

  28. J.... D....

    lost my wife and now living this song

  29. N.... D....

    I hope he remembers all he did to me. I wasn't weak. I lasted 30 years with the mental & physical abuse. I hope he remembers EVERYTHING.

  30. K.... F....

    I like this girl so much we hanging out going swimming when she was spending two days with me and she left and after she got home she said I don't think this is going to work and I'm sorry then she didn't want to have nothing to do with me she don't want to see me she didn't want to talk to me something happen I don't know what I didn't do nothing wrong I mean she said she didn't feel right when she's around me but when she left she felt better so if she was cheating on somebody with me or what.

  31. A.... D....

    All only can give I your best expecepr rit e don't

  32. M.... H....

    This is mine and Ed song love it

  33. E.... V....

    So much emotion in his music.

  34. T.... H....

    I wrote Mick he got out

  35. T.... W....

    Man ur music is amazing and most ur songs is my life too a t and went someone laced my weed and almost killed me and messed me up mentally for about three years hardest times of my life ur music is what got me through it all God bless u man

  36. P.... M....

    Reminds of a Lady I dated last year and one day got up and walked away . Pulling the we can be friends card . I had to say no way ! As hard as it was .

  37. A.... L....

    Wen the worst of his memory gets the best of me cause he took the best of me away an that was my heart I can't trust it with any other man again and I mean it he torched the best part of me took me for granted an my love an walked over it so I took the love I had for him an walked away it killed the hell out of me we don't choose who we love our heart does an mine did an I was destroyed

  38. J.... R....

    I let my addiction destroy 7 years of marriage....man...i tried but I couldn't get straight....ill always love you baby....u will always have my heart ...only woman I ever loved....you haunt my dreams and memory....

  39. K.... L....

    please txt me

  40. K.... L....

    i gave u my heart that's the best i had i trusted you baby don't give up on me

  41. J.... N....

    So why is it that the song "just as I am" no longer exists on the album just as I am ????????????

  42. E.... V....

    Not to sound rude or a dick I am just tired of all the things right now I have been through alot more than any person should no lie I should be dead right now. For some reason I am not. I have tried to kill my self more than once .I have had more than one over dose misfire with my hand gun I have been shot stabbed ran over. I am still around my wife goes in for surgery never recovered watched he die for 16 days that was the worst thing I ever had to witness

  43. L.... D....

    DAMN IT. JUST HIT A TARGET YOU WAS TALKING TO ( YOUR LOVE THROUGH MUSIC. ) DAMN RIGHT IM DUMB

  44. E.... V....

    MISSING YOU MELISSA. YOU WERE MY SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE AND LOVE

  45. L.... W....

    When and why did you send these? Are you really this monster like the officer & therapist says ?
    Who is gonna take care of you ?

  46. T.... M....

    #4life no matter what.
    We were both just ridiculous.
    still love you to my core.
    Remember when we pulled the mattress outside and laid in the back yard! Lol
    We were so DUMB! I miss you.
    always will! Talk is cheap, doesn't even matter to me what anyone says or thinks.
    I pray for you every night. wherever you are I pray you have the life you always wanted.

  47. J.... S....

    Hits home I guess one of those nights

  48. G.... L....

    She was my world an i chose to be with friends an the bottle an leave her alone but when she left me that night crying I knew she had enough of me leaving an drinking with my so called friends who didn't care the one who cared I always hurt but at the end I hurt an i prayed for her to come back to me an she did but I layed in that bed I made i found letters everywhere she had wrote wen she was alone but then memories was like a hurricane an how could love like that just up an walk away but I didnt realize that I walked out on her first hurting her but at the end I was the one it got the best of but I thank God today that we forgave eachother an now the memories we have does get the best of us but in a good way so if you have a good woman don't push her away an out the door just got a bottle an the ones you think really loves you cause the one that really lives you is that woman u leave every weekend alone to go party an u be killing her like a freight train cause love really hurts an it's painful but for some it bes to late but thank God if wasn't for me cause she got the best of me wen she left an showed me she wasn't gonna take my crap everytime I hear this song I think of the way I got the best of her an she got the best of me so fellas treat ur ladies right or they will get the best of u an it will hit u harder than hurricane

  49. R.... R....

    This song makes me feel sad because it make me thank about my pawpaw that died

  50. W.... B....

    Been there when my wife left after 20years of marriage still not shore why and never heard from her again

  51. B.... L....

    I can't call and tell her how I feel. Chalk it up to being drunk and feeling regret.

  52. B.... L....

    14 years later. This song is still relevant to me... we both moved on and found love with someone else. I wonder if she still thinks about what might have been. If I wasn't a drunken mess. Hindsight is 20/20 huh....

  53. H.... B....

    Love hard and hold on tighter always

  54. H.... B....

    Love hard and hold on tighter always

  55. M.... #....

    Dam I love this song

  56. r.... h....

    Who’s drinking fireball to this??

  57. R.... M....

    I got a bad ass list of drinking songs from it lol I mean y'all know fuck wat a crittic say

  58. R.... H....

    Shea you was my world wt out you I will be lost

  59. S.... W....

    That's a bueatiful song

  60. D.... H....

    Love this song have me thinking so hard why did she walk away

  61. J.... C....

    I am ashamed to say that I am just now hearing these softer songs from Brantley, but I am not ashamed to say that I really really really like the tenderness in his voice. Most of his other stuff has a hard edge to it, and I love that too, but the tenderness here makes an already sexy man a hundred million times more sexy!

  62. J.... L....

    As the sun set on lake Champlain

  63. M.... R....

    If he were mine I'd want him to always sing to me I love his voice I never tire of it you go Brantley

  64. M.... Q....

    Great songs could bring back memories that’s for sure . In life every 1 has a story . Plus memory’s either Good Or bad .

  65. S.... O....

    I just want her to come home. I miss her touch

  66. S.... A....

    I love this song

  67. B.... D....

    I drank alot but one day this beautiful woman stepped into my life and helped me threw it the only bad thing is she never and still doesn't know I was drinking about her

  68. J.... B....

    I'm 25. Her and I we're together 12 years. since 7th grade. then got a text.message from her ex to my phone. he screenshotting the messages between him and her. found out she's been fucking him and seeing him behind my back. I tried to kill myself years ago when we had went through it really bad. now I'm sitting here with an extension cord wrapped around a 2x6 in the ceiling drinking and taking pills just wanting to give her what she wanted. and that's for me to not be here anymore. idk why she did this to me

    J.... B....

    She was never worth your time in my opinion she a hoe that has to have 2 or more boys she probably doing the same to him. You can do better

  69. S.... S....

    I miss him & I shouldn't cuz he doesn't care about me at all! He only sees my mistakes, he lets me get treated so badly, knowing I need a little love! I want one more time with him, just 24 to 48 hours! I forgive, yeah I remember the bad times but I remember the good times too, most importantly I remember the love I had, I feel it from then & I feel it now. I know we'll never grow old together but if I could see you from time to time & & spend a little time with you here & there then I think that would or could be enough for me. Even if it's not enough, I would be very grateful & thank God for US!

  70. j.... s....

    Never showed her the best of me! Now if she ever came back, she would 100 from me! Miss and love u baby girl

  71. K.... C....

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  72. B.... C....

    me and my wife was together for 10 years 2 boys 7 and 5 and my princess 3 but during the last year she started seeing someone else i knew it but didn't want to believe it she denied it the hole time i pushed her to much i have been there for my children since the day they were born and love them unconditionally i felt like i wanted to give up on life my babies and the world and was contemplating killing myself threw bg and putting all my faith and love in gods hands now my days will get better my nights are still very difficult but threw god and my babies i know there wilk be better days

  73. d.... c....

    The best of u that u singging songs like that. love 💟💞

  74. w.... c....

    I'm gay

  75. K.... V....

    When you want someone so bad and they cannot return the same feeling it can absolutely destroy a person. This song makes my hear ache. I will forever miss my best friend whoI would drive around with me and go on spontaneous adventures while blasting the country songs we loved.

    K.... V....

    Girl that's me too . Sucks horrible.

  76. N.... P....

    When can I expect you guys are done at Becky's. I will be in the area tomorrow morning. Ok. Tomorrow morning. My Phone number?

  77. N.... P....

    For only you my love Jane. Thank God for the day He blessed us all with the life of you.

  78. d.... c....

    wow, wow, wowing. very strong and Touching and exciting song. i love it.

  79. b.... r....

    This is my all time favorite song. It is actuKky my ringtone. I completely get anx understand what he saying. Kedl doin it Brantley!!!

  80. J.... M....

    Cheating gets nowhere been down that road with my ex boyfriend who cheated memerios are a life time some good some bad and the bad ones u just try to block out and move on to the everyday life. Trusting people is the hardest thing ever because of it

  81. A.... T....

    my ex husband said this song was for me but how can you give this song to someone who you cheated on.he cheated on me the whole 5 years we were married

  82. D.... B....

    where did you get that picture I'm looking for my missing brothers's

  83. J.... E....

    Sometimes your worst enemy is yourself. It’s the one you can’t hide from. You can’t lose it. For me I’m my own biggest demon. Everything good that’s come into my life I’ve destroyed in shape or form. I hit my knees and I beg for forgiveness and I ask for the right path to take. The only issue is I can’t see the light through the dark.

  84. K.... G....

    carrying on like I've gone insane

  85. C.... M....

    She walked out on your ass cause you were an alcoholic. My mom walked out on my dad with us when I was a kid cause my dad was an alcoholic, an abusive one but still. She gave him 27yrs & he refused to straighten up so maybe if you sobered up she wouldn't had left.

  86. J.... B....

    I love me some bg

  87. A.... R....

    My ex hurt me bad he lied to me shot me and cheated on Me so many times I still stayed with him even though he shot Me in the legs he left me a year and a half ago I hit the bottle like a fish and couldn't put it down was I not good enough

  88. C.... T....

    Brantley is someone who can tell you about the hard times, good times, fun times , and heart breaking times. He one of the best country artists ever

  89. M.... W....

    I'm in my feels tonight

  90. H.... T....

    I like that songs OK and love like it OK ... and I like all the songs OK ... I will always OK ...

  91. z.... f....

    I fuck up lives by sending them to the moon total scum

  92. r.... h....

    I cried how can I not cry?!??!!?

  93. S.... S....

    Well the memories of me and my ex a year and three months went down the drain on me

  94. J.... H....

    😅😛😉😘😍😚☺😗😊😙😃😜😄😝🎉🎊🎆🎇💝💝

  95. b.... m....

    This is totally me and my friend Sierra, we dated last year, split up, now we're friends again, only hoping she'll realize that I still Wana be her man .

  96. S.... W....

    Song hits me hard, every single time. On of my favorites right here💯

  97. D.... S....

    I lost my best friend lover