“Wishes and Wants” by Mike Stocksdale – A Song Feature

     Mike Stocksdale is a master at crafting lyrics that are clever, insightful and thought-provoking. It’s a combination that many songwriters target, but very few achieve.  The lyrics of “Wishes and Wants” are particularly gripping:

I wanna break out of my skin

I am a prisoner in these cells

I wanna be anywhere else

But I've grown accustomed to these walls

     Stockdale’s voice and finger-picking guitar seem tailored for his message. He is a native of Los Angeles and received a technical education in guitar from the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood.

     “Wishes and Wants” by Mike Stocksdale

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Lyrics of “Wishes and Wants” by Mike Stocksdale

I wanna break out of my skin

I am a prisoner in these cells

I wanna be anywhere else

But I've grown accustomed to these walls

Nobody's leaving here alive

She shouted as the midnight starlight fell upon her eyes

As if I didn't know it

As if I'd try to take it all when it was time to go

When it was time to go

What's the difference between wishes and wants?

Between the things we say we need

And what we already got

Between the art we have made and stuff that we just bought

What's the difference between wishes and wants?

I wanna sleep a thousand years

I can't even make it through the night

I wanna knock down all my fears

They've kept me up half my life

You only get one shot at this

She whispered as the morning dawn

Broke open through the clouds

And I guess I always knew it

But only heard it clearly when it echoed from her mouth

When it echoed from her mouth

What's the difference between wishes and wants?

Between the things we say we need and what we already got

Between the art we have made and stuff that we just bought

What's the difference

What's the difference between wishes and wants?

Wishes and wants

She called me out a hundred times

If only I'd listened like I should

I wrote a hundred thousand lies

'Cause sometimes the truth don't sound so good

You could be the tallest tree

She told me in the doorway

With a suitcase by her feet

But if nobody's around still the loudest fall

Is only silence not a sound

Like you never made a sound

What's the difference between wishes and wants?

Between the things we say we need and what we already got

Between the art we have made and stuff that we just bought

Man, what's the difference, what's the difference, what's the difference

Between wishes and wants?

Wishes and wants

Wishes and wants