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As Good As It Gets

By Francesca Battistelli

641 views Sep 14, 2026 updated Own It album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Francesca Battistelli spends her first verse in nostalgia — joy that "would come without warning," summers that "lasted for years" — before admitting plainly that those days are gone: "these days all I feel is a longing all too real." The contrast isn't subtle; she's grieving a version of ease she can't get back.

The second verse adds real struggle to the picture, days she "wished would be over" and a season where she thought "all my best days were behind me." But the chorus doesn't resolve the ache by promising better days ahead — it locates something steady inside the hard present: "You are the promise here in the moment, where I find my rest."

Paul writes in Philippians 4:11 that he's "learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content," and Jesus tells his followers in Matthew 6:34 not to borrow tomorrow's worry today. Battistelli's title turns that same idea into something almost defiant: not everything is fine, but what's here right now is still enough.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

Remember the joy that would come without warning

Opened your eyes, woke you up on a Saturday morning

I remember

Running outside to a world with no fear

Wide open spaces and summers that lasted for years

I remember it clear


[Verse 2]

These days all I feel

Is a longing all too real


[Chorus]

You take my eyes off of the future

You lead my heart out of the past

You are the promise here in the moment

Where I find my rest

You are as good as it gets


[Verse 3]

There have been days that I wished would be over

No margin to give, just the strength to roll over

I remember

Thinking that all my best days were behind me

Tomorrow would come rushing in like some kind of prince charming

I remember it clear


[Verse 4]

But these days what I feel

In the struggle You are real


[Chorus]

You take my eyes off of the future

You lead my heart out of the past

You are the promise here in the moment

Where I find my rest

You are as good as it gets


[Verse 5]

You make it easy

You make it easy


[Verse 6]

You take my eyes off of the future

And You lead my heart out of the past

You are the promise here in the moment

Where I find my rest

This is as good as it gets

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