THE RIVER (How Do You Want Me)   |   Play   Buy  Lyrics THE RIVER (HOW DO YOU WANT ME) – music and lyrics by Richard C. Tollini (Kluso) © 2007 (1st Verse) Funny how it seems we’ve lost touch with the days of our youth as the moments when our waking dreams drift off like luminary seams of currents On the misty morning river (PreChorus) And strange as it seems I forgot how much I love you A fading light that no longer shines upon my life (2nd Verse) Now somehow I just realized no longer can I recognize the faces from the days of our youth, and Amazingly it seems how when reached our lifelong dreams it slipped away just as the autumn turns to winter And strange as it seems I forgot how much I love you A fading light that no longer shines upon my life So tell me…. (Chorus) how do you want me to love you again Because now somehow we’ve lost our way And I will follow your lead with my pledge to you So tell me how do you want me to be (Chorus Refrain) And I will follow your lead with my pledge to you So tell me how do you want me to be (3d Verse) Now we’ve come all the way back again to the places we first met as friends in the soft glow of the days of our youth And I can feel the clutch of your embrace before I’m falling swept away on the raging waves of a muddy white capped river And strange as it seems I forgot how much I love you your graceful light shines on the path back to your heart So tell me... how do you want me to love you again … because now somehow we’ve found our way And I will follow your lead with my pledge to you So tell me how do you want me to be (Outtro – chorus refrain) And I will follow your lead with my pledge to you So tell me how do you want me to be

Credits Lyrics Credits: Richard C. (Kluso) Tollini Music Credits: Richard C. (Kluso) Tollini Producer Credits: Richard C. (Kluso) Tollini Publisher Credits: N/A Performance Credits: KLUSO Label Credits: BotE Productions Description Short Song Description: Rediscovery and redemption of a failing love. Long Song Description: The underlying original title of How Do You Want Me refers to the act of redefining our love within a relationship back closer to its original starting point.... you remember? kinda like when you would do ANYTHING for the other person? - Versus where relationships usually end up and break up, when we become self centered and self serving -- this song is about the long struggle to maintain that love (even after sometimes redefining what the relationship is all about). The pro-title - THE RIVER - came about after the song was finished, realizing there is reference to a RIVER twice in the song - -both as a beatiful, calm, peaceful place or a "raging" torrent - also, something that is not constant but always changng - basically a reference to life and the relationship within it -- it can be both and sometimes the "salvation" occurs when times get roughest. OK -- that's enuff --- hopefully you can "connect" with this song on some level Story Behind the Song: Obviously we all have ups and downs in our relationships -- This song is not that personal although I was looking back and thinking about how the "love" in my life with my wife has gradually redefined itself - This is really intended as a classic LOVE SONG, which for some reason? I don't seem to write too often - hmmmm... Metadata Song Length: 4:26 Primary Genre: Folk-Alternative Secondary Genre: Country-Alternative Tempo: Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal: Male Vocal Subject Matter 1: Recovery Subject Matter 2: Loving Marriage Mood 1: Poignant Mood 2: Peaceful Language: English Era: 2000 and later