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Leaving Tomorrow
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Leaving Tomorrow
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone © 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing 12/23/12
Pass me please
a section of the paper
think I see it over on the bed
drifting through the hours of a summer
afternoon
with cups of tea and plates of soda bread
Oooooh ooooh oooh
I hear you’re leaving tomorrow
Your family’s going on a car vacation
going see the sand and ocean soon
filling up your suitcases
with swimming suits and socks
and books to read
just like I know you like to do
Ohhh, na na na na ney
Leaving tomorrow
If only for a
moment I
could tell you how I
love it when you’re
here like this with me
and hope you
always know
a time like this
when there is nothing else
Julia’s getting ready
Daddy’s sleeping
Amelia’s helping Mommy
make the food
I’m going in an hour
but I hope I see you both again
before the school year starts and summer’s through
Ooooh, oooh oooh
You’ll be leaving tomorrow
Ooooh, oooh oooh
Leaving tomorrow
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If it Were to Be
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If It Were to Be
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone © 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing 12/22/12
It’s no knock on you
if I have to be alone
or if what I want
you find you don’t condone
If it came to be
and if we were to find
if its all the same
could we be with
what is undefined?
I could never see
what I was never shown
and never chose to be
In feeling this alone
How I wish we could
go back to the days
when all we knew was love
before we had to go in separate
ways
But I know, but I know
more than I can say
And I want
more than anything to
to be just what I am--
just be what I am
and be o.k.
inst verse
You know it hurts so bad
to find there’s no one there
back to the drawing pad
to tend to your affairs
worst could come to worst
and I would walk away
all things being the same
my heart is coming home
my heart is coming home
without delay
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Come Meet Me in the Field
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone
Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing © 2012
We weren’t born to wait
and we weren’t made to follow
And we don’t have to do just what
we’re supposed to do
Meet me in the field
over by the river
Where no one gets to say
there’s something wrong with you
In the lost town
no one is able
to say what they believe is true
but I think you know
how to get over
you’ve got your answers
I believe I’ve got ‘em too
You know when trouble comes
and nothing makes it better
Let just walk away
from what it wants to do
come meet me in the field
over by the river
the places we could go
just may appeal to you
[Chorus]
When everything is new
And going like you want it
and you can do whatever you have
wanted to
you still feel heat of fire
and the riptides of the ocean
when the earth reverses motion on its
follow through
Oh why all of our lives
we’re slowly
getting farther away
I refuse to do that anymore
We weren’t born to wait
and we weren’t made to follow
And we’re not supposed to do just
what we’re supposed to do
Come meet me in the field
over by the river
the places we might go
just may appeal to you
[chorus]
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Each and Every Day
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Each and Every Day
words & music by Michael Alan Silverstone © 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
I’ve been trying
each and every day
to discover some answers
that truth will not betray
maybe nothing is hopeless
but it’s looking that way
each and every day
I need to tell you
each and every day
and uncover my reasons
that don’t seem to go away
got to turn now to something
that won’t lead me astray
each and every day
I learned a lesson
When I couldn’t go on anymore
Now I’m confessing
It’s always been too hard--
for one person alone
I believe now
each and every day
we’re getting right on the verge now
of what I couldn’t say
--love looking for purpose
no further delay
each and every day
each and every day
each and every day
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Mountain
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Mountain
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
When the sun comes up
and illuminates the land
around the mountain
And birds appear
gliding in the wind
above the sea
. . .And as the day begins
we have no way to know
whatever fate may bring
and requires that we let go
if only just to keep ourselves
out of the undertow
I’m an old man now
and I knew I never wanted to be lonely
I was a young one once
and never thought that that would end
now what I know so well
I never knew before
trying to get ahead
when no one was keeping score
so now what I feel for sure
I’ve never felt it more
Had some disappointments
that had happened long ago
guess I’ve never fully
gotten over it. . . I know
Tried to make them something
that I thought that I could use
I’d do it all again
if I had a chance to choose today
As the sun goes down
and the shadows cover over the mountain
And night arrives
with starlight over the sea
we get to live our lives
before we’re sent away
As all the years go by
and fill up the dossier
If I could give you the world
I would have underpaid
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Finally
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Finally
11/4/12
Words and Music by Michael Alan Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
Finally, now hopes are out of range,
but finally, the things that we could never see
might finally start to change
I suppose fate never acted fair
and I suppose that even if the chance arose
we might not even care
But I believe
that now is much better
‘cause I’ve still got
a pocket or two
where now I know
where water is wetter
and cold under your clothes
but only for a moment or two
Silently, the things you said you’d do
came to be
yeah, yeah, oh finally
after all that we’d be through
Did a lot of imagining
I know you did too
but what we imagine
is not the same as what comes true
I suppose it never crossed your mind
but I suppose
ohh I suppose
that’s fine
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The Fear of Facing Trouble
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
We might sell our souls for nothing
with choices that we make
when I can’t endure the waiting
that's when I make my worst mistakes
Well no one knows what time may hold
but for me my heart just aches
when the fear of facing trouble
gets to be much more than than
I think I can take
An angel's spirit came to me
I saw her in a dream
Afraid of what would slip away
said things I didn’t mean
When I awoke I realized
what I ‘d been thinking of
the fear of facing loneliness
I traded for a chance to live in love
Oh, It never mattered
what seemed like such a big deal
at the time
The Sherriff of Nottingham
rides into everybody’s life
in some form or another he will lead you to discover
The costs of both the wrong and the right
But going along is not always right
and getting along’s not wrong
when the fear of facing trouble
closes out the choice to live in. . .
Beliefs can lead to habits
and habits lead to choice
and choices lead to consequences
that tend to still the voice
well that may be but I don’t see
why we so often choose
the fear of facing trouble
the fear of facing trouble
the fear of facing trouble
not the choices that we have to live in love
oh
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Flying Blind
Words and Music by Michael Silverstone
©2012 Mr. Silverstone Music/ASCAP
It's hot out here
and it's hot inside this morning
and I can’t even stand to be at home
Hard to tolerate
the endlessness of all this longing
seems like in my dreams I’ve been
carrying on alone
I can feel the weight of the morning
but I can’t see the sum of the night
--because I’m flying blind.
You can never trust what you might tell yourself
But you can never go believe a lie
You’ve had to live your life at times
just rolling in the space between the arrows.
Having to believe and just proceed
in the directions assigned
I can feel the weight of the morning
but I can’t see the sum of the night
--because I’m flying blind.
And we go on and on and on and on
--on and on and on and on
I just wanna trust that I know what I’m doing
I just wanna know that you’ll be mine
and I just like to be
some kind of a singer
and I like liking what is hard to find
I can feel the weight of the morning
but I can’t see the sum of the night
--because I’m flying blind
I'm flying blind
I'm flying blind
I'm flying blind
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9. |
So There
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So There
Words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
7/27/12
So there
and I’m not able to recall
if we ever did
Prepare
I felt how just before the crash
there was a skid
So there
I know I should have finally seen
a little more
but I don’t know whether
time could make it better
if what belongs together
can fit the missing pieces in our hearts
So there
We’ve had good reasons behind everything we’ve done
somewhere
There’s someone starting out
where we both had begun
Although
We’ve both been happily believing on our own
you know I want so badly,
to believe but sadly
that all the things we had we
know we may not get to come again
Its an old desire
in the same attire
I refuse to be a liar
I can’t let it go and never know
So there
I won’t ever walk away again
from what I want
So there
I know, I know, I know it would be wrong
So there
and right in front of all our eyes
its there for us to see
the way it feels
time will reveal
but chance appeals
much more to me right now than guarantees--
So there
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10. |
The Music Will Go On
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The Music Will Go On
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
When what you wonder
takes you far from what you know
to find
your way
back home
Green hills of clover will
be warm in summer sun
before
its time
to go
In all the sweetness of these
peaceful days
please stay right beside me now
for a little while. . .a little while
a little while longer. . .
Now. . .
I can tell that we'll be leaving soon
in time
but until we do
Whatever we have had to learn
I hope
you can take with you
Skies are cold and black at night
within the warmth of the firelight
wind that rustles in the trees
waves and sways in the breezes
So. . As I know
and count upon
as true
I don’t worry
that music will go on
I don’t worry
the music will go on. . .
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Horses
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Horses
words and music by Michael Alan
Silverstone
© 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing
7/17/12
Now my love
is running like a racehourse
While rounding
the track
But racers
have a way of tiring
When they reach
the back
When one
has won
but two
are done
And three
is a lonely
place
Our horses
traveling to courses
are sources
of change
No quarter
Should be given to the order
to stay home
today
But up
through the trees
There are none
of these
that compares
to the fair
and fine
And I know
We may be born and end alone
but I don’t believe in that for sure
I may not make
the same kind of mistakes
that now I only half
understand
Well my love
never said she wanted
what I couldn’t be
But it hurts me
And I can’t understand it
right now
But I know
it’s true
When our love
is new
There’s a time
that you can’t
do without
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Rightfully
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Rightfully
Lyrics by Michael Alan Silverstone 12/26/12
©2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP
It was a Saturday night
I was maybe 8 or 9
but for a kid I followed the news
pretty closely at the time
Nixon had reels of tapes
and facts that he hoped to hide
pretty hard to do that by the end
but he most certainly tried
(intro riff.)
Archibald Cox took the case
he just tried to do what was right
but then Nixon ordered Elliot Richardson to fire him
that Saturday night
Richardson wouldn't do it
So Nixon fired him too and
Asked of William Ruckleshaus
to do the deed and he resigned
--rightfully
Then Nixon turned to Robert Bork
the ranking lawyer left on the crew
to finally put the block on Cox
which Bork was all too happy to do.
Telegrams and letters poured in
Representatives prepared for a fight
and Impeachment of the President
was suddenly assured overnight
--and rightfully
Sometimes what is only right
is only just a matter of time
(If it ever comes at all)
Sometimes we win for good
it could all turn bad just the same
but still we got no reason to cry
ourselves down memory lane
Trouble maybe coming on
but for now my heart is light and free
‘cause I when I think of us together
I feel confident in how its gonna be
--and rightfully.
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Wanna See You Baby
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Wanna See You Baby
Lyrics by Michael Alan Silverstone 12/27/12
©2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP
I wanna see you baby
I wanna see you now
I wanna see you baby
I wanna see you now
We’ve both been very busy
and all the time, you know
I wanna see you baby
I wanna see you now
I would be very happy
If I could be with you
I would be so so happy
spending some time with you
to me it seems so simple
that’s just the way I am
got about one thought
in my head
at a time
--be mine
I don't know why
when we all seem to know
that some thing’s just aren’t worth the fight
And I can see
when you’re next to me
That everything seems to be right
--that’s just how it is around you, and I dig that about you
I don’t know
why
I can’t ever
seem to
be
on time
and
I don’t
understand
why I can not
control my mind
getting all these thoughts
all the time
that just take
me away
from the things
that I need
to think about
. . .I guess that’s how it is
But you know right now. . .
I wanna see you baby
I wanna see you now
I wanna see you baby
I wanna see you now
don’t care about the problems
They’ll go away some day
or else be waiting for when
circumstance and time may say
but not now
not now
not now
not now
not now
not now
not now
not now
not now
I know I will always love you
like I know I do right now
and I am crazy about you
and I’ve always been you know
and I’ll always be
so
baby wanna be with you
baby wanna be with you
baby wanna be with you
baby wanna be with you
baby wanna be
baby wanna be
baby wanna be
baby wanna be
baby wanna
be with you
Right now
Now,
now
now
now
now
now
now
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14. |
Until Today
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Until Today
Lyrics by Michael Silverstone 12/29/12 ©2012
Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP
Right before the Olympic Games
no one had heard of Cassius Clay
I never thought I’d feel
like a champion of the world
--or even his valet
--until today
I can be like a scaredy cat
in room full of rocking chairs
but I never felt so peaceful and calm
you know that never was my way
--until today
I haven’t seen
what’s been so obvious to you
Wanna start now to train myself
to keep my focus true
--right on today
By now I know it true
No one has known me like you do
I never knew how much that mattered to me
maybe did
but prefered not to say
until today
I was never
quite aware
And that was o.k. by me
I want more than that, today
Baby, take my hand
I just wanna be with you
you know I’m glad that you are near
that you’ve been around all the way
right up through Today
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Michael Silverstone Northampton, Massachusetts
Born, in Ohio in the 20th Century. Live in Massachusetts in the 21st. I am a myth made of charged points of energy mostly in empty space, but I do love to write, sing, and record songs.
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