[Verse]
Messing 'round with the best of them, woo
That dressing with the rest of them, he's a stranger
Well, mother did still know his name
He said he looked through the glass, in case he passed his name
Up and down his style, his name is in a final fame
And call him Sylvester
But his mama still knows his name
Sylvester was written by Sly Stone.
Sylvester was produced by Sly Stone & Stewart Levine.
Sly and the Family Stone released Sylvester on Fri Jan 01 1982.
[“Sylvester”] started off talking about messing around, about wrestling (still happening, more than a decade after I was wrestling with the devil on There’s a Riot Goin' On), about strangers and family, about mirrors and identity. What was it, exactly? A fragment? A figment? A piece of tape that was...