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Splinter Heart

My broken floorboard friend,
you found it in your heart:
the splinter I put there,
in your heart
in your heart.

In my mouth
words got old.
Paint peeled off
the window sill.

I'm rummaging around,
in search of tell-tale clues
of what happened and didn't happen there
in your room
in your room.

In a song
notes sustain
as long as they are held.

As long as they are held,
people won't hold back.
They open up their hearts
and make room
--if there's room.

Down the drain,
Splinter Heart,
the ocean will flow
when we're apart.

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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 splinter heart 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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