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Probably the cleanest recording I've ever made. This is one of many beginnings along the path to adopting songwriting as a coping mechanism for the intensity of everyday life. I felt much better having written it and learned more than a few things in that process. It meant something that she seemed to like it.

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Joseph Boxes

If I could make you happy
I would be Joseph Boxes
I would follow rainbows
I would come up roses
The smell of failure
Is quite peculiar
But one to which one
Can grow accustomed
It's least attractive
For men of my age
Imagination
Left unattended
In telescoping logic
it all makes perfect sense
Joseph Boxes
Billy's friend

I think my iPhone's haunted
I am not Joseph Boxes
These storied tableaux and vignettes
Are partisan and incorrect
This propaganda from the left
The violence of the middle class
The scent of failure
Is quite remarkable
But one with which one
Will grow familiar
I know God made you
because he had to
I have often felt compelled myself
To become someone for you
To show you I adore you
Above all others and no one else
If i could make you happy
i would be Joseph Boxes
If independence comes
You'd better stay out of the streets
This guy from East St. Louis
Says he can sell it for me
i never even knew I made it until it was gone
Like a lousy payday
And you still play the numbers
Faces you remember
Ain't so good with names
Thought i was Joseph Boxes
From the picture in the Post Office
That's my kids future stepfather you're talking about
Intellectually beyond possessiveness
And its attendant rage
Love children too much to complain
Not enough hours in the day
To be both Joseph Boxes
And whatever this is
if I could tell a story
I'd probably paint a picture
It deletes my poems
The cinema's pure fiction
I watch them get seduced and smile and poke fun at the advertisements
Featuring Joseph Boxes
Against a broken father
Against a backlit backdrop
A thousand times I begged her No
Don't marry Joseph Boxes
Don't take my kids to England
Don't go live in a castle
I'll chase some rainbows for you

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from Panting (Solo Demos 2018), released November 8, 2018
All sounds, words, and pictures by MHW. Original artwork by WMW 2018.

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Matthew H. Welch Baltimore, Maryland

Songmaker, Singer, Guitar Player, Producer for SIGINT. Formerly of the Aviary and Pedge. Poetic Rock and Roll From A Future.

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