This song is part of a collaboration with Grace (who showed me these incredible lyrics). It was really fun working on this project with her, which was a month in the making; and I’m lucky to call her a friend.
– Benjamin Grossman
A dear blogger friend Sharon at Writers Tidbits referred me to this song Husband & Wife by Benjamin Grossman. Benjamin has been kind enough to respond to my comments about this song on his blog. I’ll point you also to his Publications page which contains mostly prose poems. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rosemont College. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Saint Joseph’s University, where he also earned a minor in philosophy and concentration in Theology.
Benjamin in his about page tells us a little bit more about himself:
- I’m multiracial.
- I have allergies to almost everything.
- I suffer from chronic illness but won’t be defined by it
- I believe the greatest minds are androgynous (Thank you, Samuel Coleridge and Virginia Woolf)
- I’m a novice songwriter.
….and this is where Husband & Wife comes to us today.
[Verse 1]
Don’t really want to think about you
As much as I already do
Don’t really want to like you
Told myself all the reasons not to
[Pre-Chorus]
My mom already knew the day we first met
My best friend already placed a bet
[Chorus]
But if I can’t open up to you
I won’t need someone new
And if you can’t be on my team
My love will be your only dream
I could settle for me all my life
Could be my own husband and wife
I could settle for me all my life
Could be my own husband and wife
I’ve studied to be both a poet and novelist, a philosopher and theologian, a writer and scholar, and in the end, I can’t possibly ever separate any of these. If I had one word to describe myself, I might say: multifaceted. Hopefully you’ll leave this space with dreams in your head and stars in your eyes.
References:
1. Husband & Wife – Benjamin Grossman web site
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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Interesting person. Nice song.
Yeh, I like it and I’m glad you do to.