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This is kind of dark anthem reminiscent to me of Eric Burdon and the Animals. I don't know where this stuff comes from, my next one could be 180 degrees different---the one before it sure was.

I really like the way the guitar came out on the instrumental verse beginning at about 2:20 into the song. Mercifully, I managed to break free of my decades-in-the-making awful habits of playing cliches in the key of A minor and did some actual improvisation that uses the song structure. I managed to pull this off it by scat singing what I wanted the guitar to do as a sketch then copying this on guitar and deleting the voice part once I'd done it.

Also, I realize I owe my developing sense of instrumental and vocal harmony to joining Valley Jazz Choir. In the course of practicing my sections on line and then joining up for weekly rehearsals with with this muy fabulus group, I started developing harmony muscles, and like Spiderman suddenly discovering his web powers, I started hearing harmonies everywhere, even in the phrase "I hear harmonies everywhere."
"I hear har
monies everywhere.
hear everywhere."

Even there. And here.
Way fun to hear implied harmonies all over the place, and then sing them into being.

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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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from Michael Silverstone and The SilverTone5, track released December 23, 2012

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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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