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Lightning Shine

He held a lightning rod
as he climbed the mountain that night.
There were clouds roiling overhead;
the rain had washed out the path.

He had doubts like a microphone,
turned them up and made them sing.
Lightning, strike my lightning rod for me.
Please electrocute my doubts.

Rain splashed among the trembling leaves.
Wind shoved the landscape.
It was all revealed in the flash.

He met the lightning bolt,
igniting the mountainside.
Dark clouds had opened up,
and they laughed their lightning at him.

He had love like a microphone,
turned it up loud and clear.
Lightning, strike my lightning rod for me.
Please amplify my love like shine.

Now there's a clearing in the woods
where acrid sparks are seen to shine
the lightning shine.

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from Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton, released 17 January 2012

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tags: alternative charlotte kemp muhl conversations cinnamon skeleton david garland lightning shine sean lennon 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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