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To Stay Alive

by Michael Silverstone

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Armistice Day, Peace everybody.

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To Stay Alive
words and music by Michael Alan Silverstone © 2012 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing 11/12/11

When I wait
for something bad to happen
lots of times I do
when I don’t know
how to make it through

There are times
I’m happy to remember
looks like they’re gone for now
I don’t know
and can’t remember how

When it interrupts my days
interrupts my nights
iinterrupts my sense of wrong and right
used to trust myself
in whatever would arrive
that’s the place
I want to stay alive

little boy standing by a river
underneath the shade
throwing rocks, feeling unafraid
little girl playing with her sister
making up a game
lately now
I don’t know my name

I’ve been one of them (and I’ve known how)
I could always see (if I wanted to)
magic that was right
in front of me
Now its hard to say
with trouble on my mind
trying hard now just
to stay alive

But then I remember
a time when someone loved me once
then I remember
someone somewhere loves us all
and I remember
that in fact to this day I still love this world
with all that’s imperfect
with all its sufferings that no one deserves

Now I know that it may not be easy
nobody said it would
but it might be
you never know, it could

but I hope that I can just remember
and if I can will
what I said
when I was so fulfilled

If I were to choose
If I were to find
If I found a way to make my mind

I would want to stay
once I had arrived
and realized our love remains alive

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released November 12, 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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