Eddie Mugavero: music
YOU KNOW
(Written by Eddie Mugavero-cassette work tape)
"Here's one I wrote for my Daddy..like to hear it..? here it go...." lol, the old songwriter night intro...
But more importantly for me, it was an exercise in taking the simplest of phrases and trying to make it profound. You know?
YOU KNOW
DAD WAS MY HERO, MY REAL ANSWER MAN
LIKE, 'WHERE DID I COME FROM & WHAT IS GOD'S PLAN?'
YEAH HE SHAPED MY LIFE AND HE HELPED ME GROW UP
TIL ONE DAY I ASKED ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE..
HE STOOD THERE IN SILENCE, JUST SCRATCHIN' HIS HEAD
THEN HE FUMBLED AND STUMBLED..BUT HERE'S WHAT HE SAID..
"YOU KNOW I'M NOT REALLY SURE..
I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE THAT OUT...
NOW I'D TELL YOU MORE BUT YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT..
YOU KNOW I'M NO GENIUS, BUT I BEEN AROUND
YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK?...YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND?
WHEN YOU'RE REALLY AND TRULY IN LOVE...
YOU KNOW"
I WROTE DOWN EVERY WORD AND I FOLDED IT UP
AND CARRIED IT WITH ME WENT SEARCHING FOR LOVE
THEN ONE DAY I MET HER AND TOOK OUT MY NOTES
IT WAS JUST LIKE DAD SAID..IT WAS JUST LIKE I WROTE..
THEN SHE ASKED..."DO YOU LOVE ME?"..AND LOOKED IN MY EYES..
THEN I FUMBLED AND STUMBLED...THEN I REPLIED...
"YOU KNOW I'M NOT REALLY SURE..
I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE THAT OUT...
NOW I'D TELL YOU MORE BUT YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT..
YOU KNOW I'M NO GENIUS, BUT I BEEN AROUND
YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK?...YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND?
WHEN YOU'RE REALLY AND TRULY IN LOVE...
YOU KNOW"
'AND YES I'M REALLY AND TRULY IN LOVE....NOW YOU KNOW"