A performer delivers a dramatic monologue weaving superhero imagery with themes of sacrifice and forgiveness. The piece explores unconditional commitment through repeated motifs of cutting strings and stealing keys, culminating in the refrain "I'll find a way to forgive you."
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Welcome home. It may seem you made me stronger than I'd be Superman. If I fly around the world, it wouldn't take me longer than it would to be your man. I'd fight a thousand Take the clothes right off my back. Put the knife against my throat. Say you leave and won't come back, but I'll find a way to forgive you. Cut the strings off my guitar. Stomp your heels into my toes. Steal the keys right out my car, and I'll find a way to forgive you. I'd fight 1,000 guys, live to die. A thousand lives, oh, oh, I'd find another way to make me smarter just so I could understand. I'll follow you, just so I could understand what it takes to be your friend. What it takes to be your friend.