Lyrics to
The Best You Can

This version of The Best You Can was released by Bill Withers in 1975.

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Looking at what I see
What does living mean to me
All that I can ever be is just a man
And the most you can ever do is the best you can

Riding on the world go round
Being me and a what I am
What I am, I’m just a man
And the most you can ever do is the best you can

And what I’ve found is mostly worth it all
The wisdom of the future is the past
In city brouges and wise old southern drawls
The words that say the most say things that last

Riding on the world go round
Being me and a what I am
And what I am, I’m just a man
And the most you can ever do is the best you can
And the most you can ever do is the best you can
And the most you can ever do is the best you can

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Bill Withers has released many songs over the years besides The Best You Can. Bill Withers released songs from 1971 to 1985 spanning across albums like Just As I Am, Still Bill, Live At Carnegie Hall, #NAME?, Making Music, Making Friends, Naked & Warm, Menagerie, 'Bout Love, and Watching You, Watching Me. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bill Withers.

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About Lyrics and The Best You Can by Bill Withers

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Best You Can, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to The Best You Can have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Best You Can if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Best You Can" means the words set to the music of The Best You Can, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Best You Can and the lyrics to The Best You Can are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Best You Can, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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