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• This Jackson self-penned ballad pays tribute to the comforts of long-term love and marriage. Jackson has been married to his high school sweetheart Denise since December 15, 1979 and this is one of several upbeat tracks on Freight Train about matters of the heart. He told The Boot: "A lot of my songs are positive songs about being in a relationship a long time, like 'The Best Keeps Getting Better'. I write what I know about, I guess, and that's where I'm at. But, man, I love sad songs. I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing."
• Jackson explained in press materials why so many of his songs skew more toward contentment than sadness. "I'm a real visual person, and when I'm writing, especially if it's a story-type song, I visualize what I know," he explained. "It's much easier if you write about something real. If I pick something that didn't sound like what I'd written or was part of what people think my life is, it probably wouldn't ring true, you know?" He added "In 'The Best Keeps Getting Better,' I did use a lot of images from me and Denise, and everybody can see it's her in there. But I don't think it's so direct it couldn't be about anybody that's been married for quite a while."