What Love Wants

by Joel Glenn Wixson

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What Love Wants 04:40
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What Love Wants What Love wants is what is written In the stories that we tell 'Bout the nights that were like heaven And the nights that were like hell What love wants is like the Bible Of the trials of truth and sin Of the, “Where is this all going?” And of, “Where did this begin?” What Love wants Is what Love wants What Love wants Is what Love wants What wants is like an anchor And a chain as long as time It's a lie that is forgiven And a treasure you can't find What Love wants is adoration What Love wants will scorch your soul What Love wants will break your promise When you think you're in control What Love wants Is what Love wants What Love wants Is what Love wants What Love wants is like a Profit Speaking words that fill you heart They will show you your beginning But you won't know where to start What Love wants is like a tempest Tossed charade to which we cling And you think it meant forever But it never meant a thing What Love wants Is what Love wants What Love wants Is what Love wants
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Cobwebs 03:05
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Cobweb Mrs. Sharon Staples Lives a lie she just can't see Waiting for her husband Doing what she's supposed to be But she does not notice That he's not the man he seems Like a living nightmare He will ruin all her dreams She's a cobweb Hanging from a yoyo She's a cobweb But she doesn't know though Mr. Danny Paper Works a job that he can't stand Waiting for the world To rise him up and take his hand But he does not notice That the world's not what it seems Like a living nightmare It will ruin all his dreams She's a cobweb Hanging from a yoyo She's a cobweb But she doesn't know though Look at all the people Living lies they just can't see Waiting for their lovers Doing what their supposed to be But they do not notice That the world's not as it seems Like a living nightmare It will ruin all their dreams We're all cobwebs But we do not know though
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It Never Will Come True 05:17
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Gilding The Lilly 03:39
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Gilding the Lilly You are a vision But indecision Makes you think that you are not enough You start out perfect But then you reflect Thinking you need pearls or other stuff But you are gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard it all before And you are gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard this before What is the reason That keeps on teasing Keeps your mind for seeing what I see What keeps you guessing What is the lesson? You'd be fine if it was up to me 'Cause you are Gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard it all before And you are gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard this before Girl have you heard this before? Is it anxiety That don't seem right to me Why don't you see the dream you are Is it a mystery That's what it has to be You shine as bight as a star Is this the fashion To not have passion Leaving you to doubt what seems so clear? What makes you wonder And snows you under What is the consequence you fear? But you are gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard it all before And you are gilding the lily It might sound silly I'm sure you're heard this before
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This Whole World 05:29
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This Whole World My whole life I thought That I was just A piece of something more Now I see it clear That I am drifting On the battles from before Mired in a maze Of someone's gaze Forever meant to keep me down Standing on the backs Of all the people Gave their lives to bring me here Living for a time When I can repay For the heartache and the fear Mired in a maze Of someone's gaze When there is no one else around This whole world This whole world Will break my heart in two This whole world This whole world Will break my heart in two Why can't I believe the stories Revel in the mythic glories Tangled in the haze of the unreal? Why can't Why does my heart bring me back here Shrouded by the truth that I fear Stuck in what it's asking me to feel? Why can't I feel? Finally the moment comes To answer for The crimes that I have done Knowing that forgiving Is that only way The battle can be won Mired in the maze Of my own gaze Until the courage can be found This whole world This whole world Will break my heart in two This whole world This whole world Will break my heart in two Why can't I believe the stories Revel in the mythic glories Tangled in the haze of the unreal? Why does my heart bring me back here Shrouded by the truth that I fear Stuck in what it's asking me to feel? Why can't I Feel?
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Starting Over 05:23
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Starting Over He had broke another mirror He had broke another vow And he broke another promise But he'd make it up somehow When he came back the house was empty But there's a note beside the bed And as he read the tears were falling Because this is what it said I'm so over starting over Time to leave this all behind When you said it was forever This isn't what I had in mind I'm so over starting over I'm so done with one more try So I'm making this the last time And I'm making this goodbye He could handle the rejection Well, at least he thought he could But the thing that was uncertain Was if he really understood But what he really couldn't stomach Was the writing on the wall It was the message that she left him That is what hurt him most of all I'm so over starting over Time to leave this all behind When you said it was forever This isn't what I had in mind I'm so over starting over I'm so done with one more try So I'm making this the last time And I'm making this goodbye And know you don't deserve it To expect me to hang on Now that all the love is gone He knew he could get you flowers He knew he could get a card And he could write that he was sorry That he had made her life so hard He could ask for her forgiveness And say he'll do it right instead But he knew it wouldn't matter Because this is what she said I'm so over starting over Time to leave this all behind When you said it was forever This isn't what I had in mind I'm so over starting over I'm so done with one more try So I'm making this the last time And I'm making this goodbye
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Chill 04:13
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Chill 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Thomas O'Leary was out on the prowl He hadn't seen Meghan O'Shay for a while He thought he might catch her down by the old well What followed on next, not a soul dares to tell The Devil is coming He's coming alone And good Christian men Will be chilled to the bone They say there was moonlight, they say it was clear And people could walk in the night without fear But there was a darkness that no one could tell It passed in the shadows down by the old well Word spread cross the village that something was wrong That Meghan O'Shay had been gone for too long And then came the message, that sure as he stands Their Thomas O'Leary had blood on his hands The Devil is coming He's coming alone And good Christian men Will be chilled to the bone She lay in the moonlight down by the old well Miss Meghan O'Shay, her head cracked like a shell And standing beside her, as still as a stone Was Thomas O'Leary, and Thomas alone As there was no other, and Meghan was dead They lay guilt for the misdeed on his head And Tom, as he stood there in front of the crowd He muttered and stammered and sang this out loud 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 The Devil is coming He's coming alone And good Christian men Will be chilled to the bone As stories, they pass down from father to son The tale of Miss Meghan and Thomas is one And so, as it happens in tales such as these We're all left to wonder what passed in the breeze For though Thomas O'Leary was guilty, they say The words that he muttered that night they still haunt us today The Devil is coming He's coming alone And good Christian men Will be chilled to the bone
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We Made This Bed 04:02
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We Made This Bed Not far back we had a choice To go along or use our voice We chose to turn away instead I guess that's how we made this bed We made this bed I guess we lie in it We made this bed I guess we die in it By lifting swords instead of songs By blaming others for our wrongs By playing games with someone's fears By not accounting for their tears By all the hate we justify By all the life we let pass by By all the times we could have cared By all the love we could have shared We made this bed I guess we lie in it We made this bed I guess we die in it But there are those to young to choose Who don't yet know what they might loose Who look to us to guide the way And when they ask what will we say? We made this bed And we just lie in it? We made this bed And we just die in it? We made this bed And we just lie in it? We made this bed And we just die in it? I guess you die?
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Judge 04:23
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Judge I found an old man smiling As he leans against a tree His smile does not diminish As he turns to look at me He doesn't seem to notice How I act or what I wear It strikes me that he doesn't even care I ask him if it's true That he's not put me in a box Or measured someone solely By the way he thinks and walks Or spent his whole life thinking How the world should be instead He though a bit, then this is what he said It's not my job to judge It's not my task to see It's not my place to figure out The person you should be It's not my job to judge 'Cause what will set me free Is to follow down the path that's mine And learn to cherish what's in front of me The woman in the market Buying things she can't afford Is a mother who hopes, one day She'll be valued and adored The man without a dollar Hoping you'll give what you can Is the man who did three tours in Afghanistan It's not my job to judge It's not my task to see It's not my place to figure out The person you should be It's not my job to judge 'Cause what will set me free Is to follow down the path that's mine And learn to cherish what's in front of me And what if, in my wisdom, I thought you should give away The only thing that gets you through the day? I left that old man smiling As he leaned against a tree And thought about the message That he passed along to me That I could give up thinking How the world should be instead And I could learn to live by what he said It's not my job to judge 'Cause what will set me free Is to follow down the path that's mine And learn to cherish what's in front of me And what's been given me
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Unforgiven 02:44
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Unforgiven When your heart is empty, black and cold You're weighed down by all the lies you've told When your sins, they haunt you in the night And you just can't make it right You're unforgiven When your mind won't take away the lie And you fail no matter how you try When the angles seem to turn away And you scream instead of pray You're unforgiven When the night seems like eternity There's a truth that you can't see Because love will set you free When your heart is empty, cold and black And all you see is everything you lack There's a lesson that we've all be shown When you're perfect you can throw that stone If you let yourself be human too Done the best the you can do Then you're forgiven Then you're forgiven There is light that shining everywhere It's a love that we can share 'Cause we're forgiven We're all forgiven

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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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