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Lie in My Truth

The burden of proof
lies in the truth.
Skilled slight of hand
does what it can.

Back before, when I first got involved,
back when things weren’t so resolved
I solved the crime.

It was open and shut,
but ever since then,
there’s a lie in my truth.
I might have been wrong,
but I’m trying my best
to do justice to you,
just as you are now;
naked or clothed,
open or closed.

The case went to trial,
the jury was hung.
Exonerate my smile,
exonerate my tongue.

My god, my whole life is locked up.
Where, oh where is the key--
the key to me?

I was open and shut,
and ever since then,
there’s a lie in my truth.
I really screwed up,
but I’m trying my best
to do justice to you,
just as you are now;
naked or clothed,
open or closed.

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from Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton, released 17 January 2012

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tags: alternative conversations cinnamon skeleton david garland avant-garde experimental folk singer-songwriter New York

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Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since ... more 1980.

"Like many great songwriters before him, Garland pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland."
--Sean Lennon less

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