| You were in college working part time waiting tables | 
| Left a small town, never looked back | 
| I was a flight risk with a fear of fallin' | 
| Wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts | 
| I say «Can you believe it? | 
| As we’re lying on the couch?» | 
| And I can see it | 
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see it now | 
| Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water? | 
| You put your arm around me for the first time | 
| You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter | 
| You are the best thing that’s ever been mine, yeah | 
| Flash forward and we’re taking on the world together | 
| And there’s a drawer of my things at your place | 
| You learn my secrets and you figure out why I’m guarded | 
| You say we’ll never make my parents' mistakes | 
| Oh but we got bills to pay | 
| We got nothing figured out | 
| When it was hard to take | 
| Yeah, yeah, this is what I thought about | 
| Do you remember all the city lights on the water? | 
| You saw me start to believe for the first time | 
| You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter | 
| You are the best thing that’s ever been mine, yeah | 
| Oh I | 
| And I remember that fight | 
| Two-thirty AM | 
| As everything was slipping right out of our hands | 
| I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street | 
| Braced myself for the «Goodbye» | 
| ‘Cause that’s all I’ve ever known | 
| Then you took me by surprise | 
| You said, «I'll never leave you alone» | 
| You said, «I remember how we felt sitting by the water | 
| And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time | 
| I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter | 
| You’re the best thing that’s ever been mine» | 
| (Hold on make it last, hold on never turn back) | 
| I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter | 
| You’re the best thing that’s ever been mine" |