You Were My Best Shot
Mass Effect · Garrus Vakarian
The story in the song
This original Mass Effect romance song is written from Garrus Vakarian's POV, aimed at Female Shepard on the edge of the end. "You Were My Best Shot" turns their bond into a final plea: survive the war, outlast the fire, and make it back alive tomorrow.
The song treats Garrus not as a detached sniper, but as the battle-scarred survivor who has buried too many names already and refuses to add Shepard to the list. It leans into the romance as something practical, loyal, and war-forged: bad jokes over fear, one impossible hope for tomorrow, and one line he cannot stop repeating.
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Lyrics
C-Sec gave me rules, Omega gave me scars
You gave me something neither one could kill
I lined up traitors, mercs, impossible odds
Then you stepped into my life and held me still
I'm good with distance, with wind, with drop
Bad at saying what matters before the shooting starts
You were my best shot
Not the clean kill, the reason I still fire at all
You were my best shot
The line that steadies when the whole sky wants to fall
So if the end comes hard, Shepard
Don't go where I can't follow
You were my best shot
Come back alive tomorrow
Sidonis in the crosswind, Menae under ash
Presidium glass and a laugh between the cracks
Every war kept proving one simple truth
I'd rather take the hit than lose you
I've buried teams, chances, cities in flame
I'm not adding your name to that list
You were my best shot
The only mark I ever prayed I wouldn't miss
You were my best shot
The one bright line I still refuse to lose to this
So if the sky comes down, Shepard
Outshoot the dark tomorrow
You were my best shot
Come back alive tomorrow