Penance

from What Would I Leave You With? by Chad Perrone

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(music and lyrics by Chad Perrone)

Hide behind the words you write

Do they match up with the way you wanted to leave this life

This wears me down, these awful sounds

How much would it hurt to show the love you want to keep around?

If embrace came to shove, while I don’t know you, love

I’m fine to put aside all the things we can’t agree on

I find it’s better when I breathe

Fill these lungs with what I can’t see

You don’t know where I’m coming from

And it’s fine to just believe

There will be air to share when the morning comes

And I’ll keep my side clean.

These extremes play out for me

Like a pendulum swinging from pretty to ugly.

Have you ever found that some life was turned around

From the vitriol that pours from your fingertips and mouth?

I need to stop myself from scrolling the hate

I’m dizzy and I’m overwhelmed, I’m losing faith

Maybe it was always like this

Or maybe…

(Chad A Perrone, Chad Perrone Music, ASCAP)

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from What Would I Leave You With?, track released September 22, 2023
Chad Perrone - vocals, acoustic guitar

Rob Griffith - production, engineering, mixing, drums, percussion, programming

Steve Belleville - bass, vocals

Kit Karlson - keyboards, synth bass

Chip Johnson - acoustic guitars, electric guitars

Andy Sorenson - electric guitars

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