What I Want

by Peter Brunone

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This is a song about dying to self.

Cover art by the inimitable Jonny Jimison.

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I want your guilt; I want your shame
I want what you don't even know you hide
I want to take your blows
In my own mortal flesh
And let my shoulder drink your anguish

I want to suffer... your loss
I want to be the one to be abused
I want to be... rich
Enough to bear the cost
I want to be unjustly accused
For all the right reasons

How could I call myself your brother (friend, lover)
If I wouldn't walk a mile to give you my shoes

Because what's mine is not mine,
Has no claim on my grace
Though since it got a room here it's been strutting like it owns the place.
But if we learn to give ourselves for one another,
We just might have a leg to stand on when we tell the truth.

Look what kind of love was mine
Before I could give it
(An embarrassment of riches)
And all I have to do is learn how to live it
Outside of the lie
Of this thickened skin that protects me
(Safe and cold)
From you
From us
I must
Lay this armor down

'cause if it has to happen to one of us, then I want it to be me.

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released August 28, 2014
Words and music ©2014, Peter Brunone
Cover art ©2014, Jonny Jimison

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Peter Brunone Dallas, Texas

Husband, father, friend.

Amateur watcher of the stars.

As a kid, I would sometimes ride a unicycle to school. Make of that what you will.

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