All For the Best
Words and Music by Tom May


Yes, I do get to go to wonderful places ... but most of the traveling is solitary windshield time on 2-laners in a Ford van..


On a highway by the coastline of the wide Pacific shore
There are scenes that flood my thoughts tonight from other roads before
The laughin’ sounds of children and the passion that I brought to nights gone by
But those miles cloud my memories, and tonight
There’s only silence by my side

But it’s all for the best, that I travel alone
From the plains, to the mountains, to where the wild breakers foam
But tonight I’m feelin’ lonely, and there’s no one on this empty road I know
The pines are my only companions, but its all for the best now, I suppose

Once I had a lover, who was fine as the wind
Of a sweet Wyoming springtime when the rivers flow again
But those rivers of time took my true love to another season’s arms.
And now it’s wintertime in the rockies, with just a fire, and my songs to keep me warm

But it’s all for the best, that I travel alone
From the plains, to the mountains, to where the wild breakers foam
But tonight I’m feelin’ lonely, and there’s no one in this two bit town I know
And though her voice still whispers to me, its all for the best now I suppose

There’s a woman on the prairies and she’s waitin’ there for me
And she waits by the window and she weeps quietly
Her tears stain the towel that she uses to clean an old picture frame
With a portrait of a man, who’s a thousand miles away out in the rain

But it’s all for the best, that I travel alone
From the prairies, to the mountains, to where the wild breakers foam
But tonight I’m feelin’ lonely, and there’s no one in this smoky bar I know
And though my past still whispers to me, its all for the best now I suppose

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