Beat up Martin guitar with an empty tip jar on a Saturday night
I'm playing my love songs to empty chairs, and people standing in line
And out of the corner of my eye, I fell in love "At First Sight"
With that beach blonde hair, and eyes that kept me starin'
Long, cozy summer nights with the Crosley record playing machine
She put her hair down and lit me up
Like we were matches in some kerosene
Before I knew it she was taking my hand
And just begging to dance with me
But there ain't nothing like being 17
Cause we're straight out of a Nicholas Sparks
Straight off an R&B love song, just without the blues
Straight off a Taylor Swift song that you made me listen to
Baby there ain't ever been nobody
That makes me feel the way that you do
That's why "The Best of Me" belongs to you
It wasn't long before she was
Singing my songs with all of those empty chairs
And night after night with all those empty tip jars
But I didn't really care, no
And when the crowd thinned out and I had to pick "The Last Song"
I would look in her eyes and start playing this one
Singin' we're straight out of a Nicholas Sparks
Straight off an R&B love song, just without the blues
Straight off a Taylor Swift song that you made me listen to
Baby there ain't ever been nobody
That makes me feel the way that you do
That's why "The Best of Me" belongs to you
I'm a "True Believer"
That you are "The Choice" that you make
And if relationships hurt like I've heard they were supposed to
They said you should've been my best mistake
But we were straight out of a Nicholas Sparks
Straight off an R&B love song, just without the blues
Straight off a Taylor Swift song that you made me listen to
Baby there ain't ever been nobody
That makes me feel the way that you do
That's why "The Best of Me" belongs to you
That's why "The Best of Me" belongs to you