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Overnight

by Michael Silverstone

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There really are 108 billion people estimated to have lived before us, and there have been a lot of spectacular rises and falls, some of them rather rapid.

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Overnight
Words and Music by
Michael Silverstone
©2013 Mr. Silverstone Music/ASCAP

I used to wander
I used to run free
Nothing in the world
could lay a limit on me
now instead
something else got in my head
it’s all come to seems so strange
everything’s changed
overnight

7 billion people
living on the earth
‘bout a hundred billion more
been here to check it out first
yeah I know
always new places to go
I used to doubt that was true
but I’ve found this with you
overnight

Sheets of rain and floods of swelling rivers
scour the surface of the valleys
Marching waves of émigrés
as the empires rise and fall and the new ones rally


Thought I had perspective
and I lived life with care
felt like I was grounded
even up the air
only now I see
what really matters to me
‘cause what’s been left in our midst
just won’t be dismissed
overnight

Big changes coming
can’t get out of the way
may come tomorrow
may come today
but I’m sure
can’t just go back any more
cause what is gone is gone
gonna have to move on
overnight

Sheets of rain and floods of swelling rivers
scour the surface of the valleys
Marching waves of émigrés
as empires rise and fall and the new ones rally

I believed we could make it
I believe it still
Once I had a dream
and in it everything just
turned out so well
and I feel
o.k. with everything real
as we come to the part
where everything starts
overnight
overnight--

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released December 17, 2013

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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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