Best Days

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Emotionally fueled “Best Days” shows a more vulnerable side of Alessia Cara. She struggles to convince herself that everything is peachy while lamenting over a… Read More

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Best Days Lyrics

[Verse 1]
So much harder to be honest
With yourself at twenty-somethin'
Wish I knew what I'm becomin'
And felt the ground while I was on it

[Pre-Chorus]
Hopin', waitin' on a moment
Not knowin' if it's comin' or it's goin', mm

[Chorus]
What if my best days are the days I've left behind?
And what if the rest stays the same for all my life?
I'm runnin' with my eyes closed, so it goes
You live and then you die
But the hardest pill to swallow is the meantime
Are the best days just the ones that we survive?

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh, ooh (Ah, ah)
Ooh, ooh, ooh

[Verse 2]
If I'd known to fuеl the fire (Fire)
I would'vе thrown my arms up higher (Higher)
Woulda held on a little tighter
'Cause you don't know a thing you miss 'til it's behind you, mm

[Chorus]
What if my best days are the days I've left behind?
And what if the rest stays the same for all my life?
I'm runnin' with my eyes closed, so it goes
You live and then you die
But the hardest pill to swallow is the meantime
Are the best days just the ones that we survive?

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh, ooh (Ah, ah)
Ooh, ooh, ooh

[Bridge]
What if my best days are the days I've left behind?
And what if the rest stays the same for all my life?

[Chorus]
What if the best days are the days I've left behind? (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
And what if the rest stays the same for all my life? (Ooh, ooh, ooh)

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh, ooh (Ah, ah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh

About

Emotionally fueled “Best Days” shows a more vulnerable side of Alessia Cara. She struggles to convince herself that everything is peachy while lamenting over a stripped-down piano ballad.

The track was formed by a lyric to a bridge Alessia wrote for another track on the album, “Box in the Ocean:”

What if the best days are the days I’ve left behind?

Her friend and producer, Jon Levine, advised her not to “waste the lyric on a bridge, and to make a whole separate song,” creating what now has its own identity. It is the third promotional single and twelfth track of the album, shifting the sonic mood for a moment.