"The Best of Me" is a song by American rock band the Starting Line from their debut studio album Say It Like You Mean It (2002).
"The Best of Me" was first released as a single on June 16, 2003;[4] it was pushed to modern rock radio stations in the U.S. on July 22 of that year.
[6] The video starts with a guy attempting to impress a girl by playing music from a boombox outside of her residence.
No one knows that better than The Starting Line, whose youthful 2003 hit examines how mature conversations, forgiveness and time spent apart are sometimes needed to make a long-term relationship work.
[12] Alternative Press included the song in the genre's most "influential" tracks,[13] and also ranked it at number 35 on their list of the best 100 singles from the 2000s.