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What It Was

by Michael Silverstone

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At some point during this jackpot week of writing multiple songs, I started this new way of writing lyrics, and I stopped trying to make songs about anything and just concentrated on what words and sounds felt good to sing with the notes.

I noticed that chord changes started coming on words that I would actually choose to emphasize, so I figure this does actually mean something I meant to say, except not with intentional consciousness but unconscious intentionalness if that makes any sense.

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What It Was
Music and Lyrics by Michael Alan Silverstone
7/19/09
©2009 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP

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released July 19, 2009
Isn't it a wonder how it is--
endlessly surprising how it comes to be
How the sky is always darkening and lightening
over land and sea

I never knew or presupposed
any kind of picture of
how it ever had to be
but now I see
what I'm looking for
when I begin to remember
a time
you were here
before
things moved on
at the time
almost lost
before we found
a way home

Don't know where to go with this
Don't know why I didn't see
What it was--to you
What it was--to you
What it was--to you
What it was--to you

Oh, I was
happy
just to
tell you what it meant to me
I was
happy
just to feel you with me

at the time
you were here
before
things moved on
at the time
almost lost
before we found
a way home

Isn't it peculiar how we choose
and find the things that follow once we do
But I am glad for
what I never saw was coming
In my mind I can go to

a time
you were here
before
we moved on
at the time
almost lost
before we found
a way home

I am
happy
just to
tell you what it means to me
I am
happy
just to feel your presence

I am
happy
just to
tell you what it means to me
I am
happy
just to feel your presence here with me

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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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