FIVE TIMES AUGUST LYRIC LIBRARY

NECESSITY (SINGLE)
BRIGHTER SIDE STRIPPED

Tracklisting:
1. Necessity

Release Date: July 2001
Recording Location: Home
Produced by: Brad Skistimas
Recorded by: Brad Skistimas
Artwork Design: Brad Skistimas

Musicians on this album:
Brad Skistimas - Vocals, Piano

Other information:
- This was the second recording under the name "Five Times August"
- Brad was 17 years old when he wrote "Necessity"
- Only two copies exist
- "Necessity" is the only song written on piano by Skistimas to date

Commentary:
I wrote "Necessity" for my girlfriend after we graduated high school. The lyrics are indeed very high school and overly romantic, but it was the first time I had really written a song for somebody I thought I loved. I was young and just starting to figure out songwriting. I still like the song's melody and some of the lyrics are okay, though very cliche. Perhaps someday I'll re-record it just for nostalgia's sake!

Lyrics:

NECESSITY
(Skistimas)

I could tell you everything, but you won't understand
Unless you took the time to find out who I am
You're all I want, and everything
You're all the rest of what is me

I could hold you for a lifetime, but it won't be enough
You will never feel the way I do, I could never love enough
You're all I want, and everything
And in my life necessity

So let me love the way I do
And let me hold on to you
And let me say what I need to say
Without you pushing me away
The way you do

In the softness of my silence and all that lies between
It takes me to where i've been before, but shows me what I've never seen
All I want, and everything
It shows me what you do to me

So let me love the way I do
And let me hold on to you
And let me say what I need to say
Without you pushing me away
The way you do