I've been transcribing the song lyrics from the liner notes of Colin Blunstone's On the Air Tonight album, and I noticed a small thing about "The Best Is Yet to Come." In the bridge there are the lines "And if the stormy nights surround you / I will always shine the light that guides you." There's a similar image of surrounding night* in "Maybe after He's Gone" on Odessey and Oracle: "As the night folds in around me / Night surrounds me; I'm alone."
"Maybe after He's Gone" was written by Chris White, and the liner notes of On the Air Tonight credit "The Best Is Yet to Come" to Charlie Grant, Pete Woodroffe, and Melanie Chisholm (Woodroffe is also credited with playing keyboards on the album, although specific tracks aren't mentioned). I'm not sure if this line in "The Best Is Yet to Come" was written as a reference to "Maybe after He's Gone," but I think it might illustrate something about Blunstone's taste.
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*There's also "I want to hold you tight / While the warmth of the night surrounds us" in "Don't Go Away" (also written by Chris White), but - like I mentioned back in November - the situations are different. The surrounding night described in "The Best Is Yet to Come" has the same desolation that's in "Maybe after He's Gone."
