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Want You to Know

by Michael Silverstone

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This was written with my friend Joe Martinez, and I took words he said as he explained what he wanted to his fiancee to know as they were about to be getting married. Joe had grown up in the Bronx, and was a professional kickboxer, until an accident almost paralyzed him. With determination he physically rehabilitated himself, and in this song he expresses his gratitude for other ways his life recovered.

Special thanks to reknowned Massachusetts griot, singer, and educator Eshu Bumpus who suggested and co-wrote an old school introduction to the song the way they used to write 'em in on Tin Pan Alley.

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What I Want You To Know
Music and Lyrics by Michael Alan Silverstone, Joseph Martinez and Eshu Bumpus
©2009 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP

To really know someone
Might seem impossible
My words don’t usually flow
But I’m certain now
My love as I walk with you
Of what I want you to know. . .

The way my life
Used to be
I had to be someone that I didn’t want to be
Just to survive in the world,
to survive in the world,
Just to survive

But when I met you
I knew
That I would begin again
To try and be the one
That I always should have tried to be

You are everything to me,
My inspiration and my shining star
And I’m finding all I ever wanted
Just to be right here where you are

I’m a fighter

And I’ve been fighting all my life
But I never knew what I was fighting for
I never knew what I was fighting for
But now
I see these fighting days are through
Instead I’m living to be loving you

What I want you to know now baby
All I want is to be together through this life
What I want you to know now baby
What I want you to know now

When I was down
They said I wouldn’t get up anymore
But our love, pulled me up
so I got on my feet again

What I want you to know now baby
What I want you to know now
What I want you to know now baby
What I want you to know now. . .

(repeat and fade)

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released July 4, 2009

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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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