The Best Was Yet To Come
Recording Artist: Laura Branigan
Writers: Jim Vallance
Bryan Adams
Date Written: July 1982
Albums: Laura Branigan (Atlantic Records, April 1990)
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Also recorded by Bryan Adams
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Part way through recording "The Best Was Yet To Come" Laura Branigan phoned me from the studio in Los Angeles. She told me she was thrilled with the song (the lyric held some special significance for her) but she was worried that her sparse musical arrangement might "need something more".

She played the track for me over the phone, and asked me if I had any thoughts or ideas. I told her it sounded just fine the way it was! And it did!

In the end I believe her concerns were unfounded ... perhaps just studio jitters.  I still think the final version is lovely.

Sadly, Laura died suddenly on August 26, 2004 age 52, the result of a brain aneurysm.
Lyrics: Just a small town girl in the city lights
The best was yet to come
Then lonely days turned to endless nights
The best was yet to come

How were you to know
That you would be the lucky one
Ain't it funny how time flies
When the best was yet to come

You can cry yourself to sleep at night
You can't change the things you've done
You had it there then it slipped away
Yeah you left the song unsung

Even through your tears
I never saw you come undone
What's so good about goodbye
When the best was yet to come

I find myself thinkin' about yesterday
When you were here and livin' in a dream
In the moment that it takes
You find you made your first mistake
Like the setting sun....
You turn around it's gone

Just a small town girl who had it made
Or so the story goes
She had it there then it slipped away
Oh - how was she to know

Even through her tears
I never saw her come undone
Ain't it funny how time flies
When the best was yet to come
What's so good about goodbye
When the best was yet to come