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What We Have

by Michael Silverstone

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This started as an exercise of out of a songwriting book of writing three verses where "What We Have" meant something different and took someone through their whole life. The exercise got way out of control, but I really dig when that happens.

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What We Have
Words and Music by Michael Silverstone
©2013 Mr. Silverstone Music/ASCAP
12/27/13

Love, begun when we were young
before we ever knew
what anything could come to mean
Eyes, collecting all they’ve see
thirst that meets the drink
the crackle in the sparks of fire
pursuit and possession
of what can’t come again
and won’t return the same way twice
desire was a mission
that overtook our sense
of what might tell us
what we have to love

Then, when bound to what we want
agree to what we need
declining into yours and mine
life, gives temper to the strong
when sure of what we want
we find a way to bring it home
no two ways about it
we struggled on our own
and together did the best we could
but I never did doubt it
that we would find someday
what we truly knew we had to love

In dark when waking from a dream
I found myself aware
and settled with my eyes still closed
A room, reminds you who you are
informs you where you’ve been
suggests what you might get to be
As I look to your pillow
and see you there asleep
a lifetime’s story in your face
there’s a kind of a halo
spreading all around
of what we have and
what we have to love

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released December 27, 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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