Shame (feat. Jessica Lea Mayfield)

from Junebug by Jon Charles Dwyer

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Is there something wrong in the way that I think?
I think on it all the time.
Cause there's nothing right in the way that I see
What someone deems true in me.

I've sang for the funeral, I've sang for the wedding.
There's no amount of love, no more death, that keeps me steady.
Thirst in the spring, drowning by fall.
If I can't have all of my pain,
I won't have none at all.

Did I say something wrong when I spoke to your son?
When I begged down on bended knee
With an ache in my gut and a plea on my tongue,
Another mouth you couldn't afford to feed.

I prayed on hilltop, then I prayed in the valley.
There's no amount of trust, no good plea, that makes it holy.
Thirst in the spring, drowning by fall.
What good is acting in faith when you don't have none at all?

I've spent my life trying to fit in someone else's skin.
Left holding the hopes of what I wished I'd been.
So I'm dreaming in fire but I'm smoking in shame.
What if I burned it all?
Would I know my own face?

What if became only flame?
What if I became only flame?
What would be left of me to blame?
How bright would I burn without all of this shame?

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from Junebug, track released January 29, 2021
Guest vocals: Jessica Lea Mayfield
Pedal Steel: Rebecca Branson Jones

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Jon Charles Dwyer Asheville, North Carolina

Jon Charles Dwyer's songs embody the spirit of the Appalachian mountains he is married to: all poverty stricken loss and desire set against the backdrop of the most beautiful springtime of love and fresh hope tumbling over those hills and down to the valleys below. ... more

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