My Perspective

by Joel Glenn Wixson

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Changed My Mind 04:24
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Change My Mind How I change my mind How I change my mind How I change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Grew up in a different time Learning how to live the grind Didn't have to suffer through Things like you Never knew What you had to do Everyone was just like me There was not a “has to be” Didn't know what difference was Never was A common cause Just go on because How I change my mind How I change my mind How I change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Living someone else's dreams Taking all the time it seems Found my feet on stolen land Never planned To understand Giving with an empty hand Then I learned a different truth Founded on a different proof Had to see a different way Couldn't stay Not okay Couldn't wait another day How I change my mind How I change my mind How I change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Change my mind Round and round Like a bucket filling upside down Spilling out But the words were not for me to shout Taken in Off the beaten road for another spin Letting go Cause it's time that I don't run this show Knowing what I think I know Is everything that has to go What I see It's just me It isn't what it has to be Hoping every step I take Will make it so your back won't break Amplify Learning why I fail and do another try
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My Perspective 05:06
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My Perspective One, I wake up blinded by a light I've never seen Ripped, as if unwilling, from a catacomb serene Two, I feel the warming light and then my mother's care The world might be an angry place but it can't touch me there Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It seems it's defective Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It might be selective Three, I have a family, it's not perfect, but I'm home Sitting at the table, so I never feel alone Four, the friends around me make me think that I'm okay And so I start believing I will be something some day Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It seems it's defective Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It might be selective Five, I go to college because that is what we do Thinking everyone I see they are thinking that way, too Six, I find the perfect love and I think she's just like me Then heartache lands and I understand there are things I just can't see Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It seems it's defective Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It might be selective How did I convince to see the way I do? How do I begin to see what's true? One, I am beginning with the lie that's in my head Then I am confronting every tangled things I've said Two, I might forgive myself for all the harm I've done Knowing that's the only way that I can carry on Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It seems it's defective Oh hi oh Oh my perspective Oh hi oh It might be selective
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The Lonely Ones 04:12
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The Lonely Ones Sitting alone at the bar Caressed by her phone Waiting for no one at all To take her home Something somewhere in her past Has exiled her here Poisoning dreams full of love And left her fear She is as lonely one Thinks she's the only one Out there One of the lonely ones Just needs to find someone To care Back in her room by the bay She can't find the light Surrenders herself to the haze She passes the night Morning returns like a knife It cuts through her dreams Somehow as bad as it is Is as bad as it seems She is as lonely one Thinks she's the only one Out there One of the lonely ones Just needs to find someone To care Day after day passes by Resigned to your fate She thinks it's already too late To all of you there at the bar Caressing your phones Waiting for no one at all To take you home Something somewhere in your past Has exiled you here Poisoning all of your love And left you fear You are the lonely ones You're not the only one Out there You are the lonely ones I know you'll find someone To care I was a lonely one I was the only one out there I was a lonely one And then I found someone . . .
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Never 03:48
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Never Saw an old man kneeling in a graveyard Whispering words, sweetly to a stone There was such intention in his praying Made it seem like he was not alone The look upon his face brought me to listen Hoping I could catch what were his words As I leaned in closer, and stood quiet This is the simple prayer that I heard Never raised a hand at you in anger Never broke a promise I had made Never left your side when you were crying Never took for granted what we'd laid On the stone was carved, “Beloved mother. Owner of my heart, and trusted friend.” And in tiny letters at the bottom “Taught me about living till the end.” It seemed to me his prayer was an answer Saying he had kept a sacred vow Making clear, in life, he had not faltered And that she might be listening somehow Never raised a hand at you in anger Never broke a promise I had made Never left your side when you were crying Never took for granted what we'd laid Did he need to be forgiven For a life that he was living? Or is this a way to love her After she was gone? Saw an old man kneeling in a graveyard Whispering words, sweetly to a stone Thinking that if I was blessed to know love I would surely make his words my own And by and by the years have passed before me And fortune bade me sacred vows to take And day by day I pledge that simple prayer His words became the promise that I make I'll never raise a hand at you in anger I'll never brake a promise I have made I'll never leave your side when you are crying I'll never take for granted what we'd laid
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The Meaning of His Life 03:57
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The Meaning of His Life No less then his Sunday best Hands laid out across his chest Eye closed and the smallest smile Like he might be back in a little while Flash back to a different day First grandchild is on the way Whole family is doing fine Seems like troubles are all down the line That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life Clock turning back further still They don't have kids but you know they will Work's hard, but it's what you do For the “some days” that will come to you That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life First born to a hard luck man Love, he didn't understand Left lonely without a prayer Finding only confusion there Then left on his very own Don't know how to find a home But there are times when the crumbs you find Will make a birthday cake in time That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life That's the meaning of his life
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Dori's Song 04:47
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Dorie's Song From a line on a page To the leaf of a sage From the seed then a tree Comes the fruit that will be And then as the hands kneed dough And from the warm love grow What will be And then they'll see On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they reach you On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they teach you Then they'll know Light only grows From the child in your eyes To a child that just flies to your arms From you hopes and your dreams To a family it seems The with needle and thread you sew And from the warm love grow What will be And then they'll see On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they reach you On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they teach you Then they'll know Light only grows Until it's gone And can you tell me How does love travel on? From a life full of love To the wing of a dove But when it disappears Comes our pain and our tears But from ashes and dust you glow And from the warm love grow What will be And then they'll see On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they reach you On the light of a heart On the light of a soul, they teach you Then they'll know Light only grows
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He's Terrible 02:58
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He's Terrible Oh he's terrible He's a bloody excuse But he's good for you and Oh he's terrible And you know he falls short Nothing you can do and Nothing you can do Nothing you can do Nothing you can do and What a parable It's a boy and a girl And a prison for two and Oh it's scare-able And you know he falls short Nothing you can do and Oh it's bearable It's a roof and a bed In a prison for two and Oh it's wearable Though it doesn't quite fit Nothing you can do Nothing you can do Nothing you can do and How re-shareable You can make it look right So it's good for you and It's repairable Though it doesn't quite fit Nothing you can do and How unfair-able When they see through the lie It's a prison for two and Now they stare-able So they know he falls short Nothing you can do Nothing you can do Nothing you can do and Oh he's terrible He's a bloody excuse But he's good for you and Oh he's terrible And you know he falls short Nothing you can do and Nothing you can do Nothing you can do Nothing you can do and
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Magic 06:54
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Not Saying 04:32
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Not saying You told me that your love for me It would burn on like the sun You said that until hell would freeze I would be the only one But when I come home lately And the house is dark and cold I think there's something missing From the picture and the stories that you told Not saying your lied But I think different Not saying you hurt But it's unkind Not saying your wrong But when the money's gone The blame just can't be mine All of the time I do my best to give you All the loving that you need I work until the sun goes down And until my fingers bleed It seems to me that the more a give The more you take away And I just keep on sinking in confusion About everything you say Not saying your lied But I think different Not saying you hurt But it's unkind Not saying your wrong But when the money's gone The blame just can't be mine All of the time Will I find a rhyme or reason For this masquerade Or live on past the damage From the thorny bed of nails you've laid You tell me that your love for me It will outshine every star And someday I will understand The perfection that you are Well maybe what you say is true That there's something I can't see Or maybe underneath it all You are poison and you'll be the death of me Not saying your lied But I think different Not saying you hurt But it's unkind Not saying your wrong But when the money's gone The blame just can't be mine All of the time
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Blue 03:50
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Blue Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Can't find reason, can't find a reason Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Can't find reason, can't find a reason Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Still in my night shirt, still in my nightshirt Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Still my night shirt, still in my nightshirt Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Stare at the ceiling, stare at the ceiling Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Stare at the ceiling, stare at the ceiling Till the day is through Blue, blue, blue I get so blue Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through Blue, I get so blue And I can hardly wake up Till the day is through
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Oblioed 03:50
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Waiting at the Station 04:55
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Waiting at the Station Waiting at the station, I was twenty five years old A suitcase and some flowers in my hand Trying to remember all the things that I was told To save me when I did not understand Growing up believing there were things that I should know To guide me as I tried to find my way Thinking of the people or the places I would go To teach me how to pass another day But the road don't sing a song 'Bout what is right and what is wrong And it don't care which way you turn Or if you take the time to learn Waiting at the station, I was thirty five years old A suitcase and a bottle in my hand Trying to remember all the things that I was told To save me when I did not understand But the road don't sing a song 'Bout what is right and what is wrong And it don't care which way you turn Or if you take the time to learn But the bar won't crash And the car won't close And they break your heart But for what, who knows? And when all you have Is the thoughts you think It just might be time to buy another drink Waiting at the station, I was forty five years old A suitcase and a bible in my hand Trying to remember all the things that I was told To save me when I did not understand But the road don't sing a song 'Bout what is right and what is wrong And it don't care which way you turn Or if you take the time to learn

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released June 17, 2023

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Joel Glenn Wixson Kittery, Maine

The foundation of Joel Glenn Wixson's musical life is street performance, "busking." Since starting his musical journey at the age of nine, he has played from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon. Internationally, He has performed in Canada, France, and New Zealand, but most of the time he is in New England playing in the streets from Boston on up the Coast. ... more

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