Offering yourself as the token — pride and shame and all.
Words & music by Brody Bond · Written December 21, 2023
My love is a bribery
And I am the bribe
The burden of loving you
Is admitting that I have something inside
Of me that you'd want
Of me that you'd take
The worst part of our love
Is it tells me I'm ok
'Cause you are this beauty
This strength and this song
You know your own heart
And that you belong
Your eyes aren't afraid
Your voice warms the night
So why would your arms
Choose me to hold tight?
You're a treasure worth hunting,
And me loving you
Means I want to be wanting something
For you to hunt, too
So my love must call and kill my ego
So I can fill those shoes
I might not trust myself
But I trust me trusting you
Here I am
My literal skin in our game
I, myself, am the token
Of my pride and my shame
It's not narcissism,
I am just damn afraid
To believe that this who you love
Is something I gave