What I Wanted to Say
from Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton by David Garland
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What I Wanted to Say
What did I do to you?
Was it a cold touch?
Or maybe a smile at the wrong time?
My timing is off.
What did I give to you?
Was it the wrong word,
garbled and strange, or simple and plain
but not nearly enough?
What I wanted to say
pulled hard at my tongue,
dropped from my mouth
unheard and unsung.
What’s a reply like?
What’s worth responding to?
Pillars of fire, one pillar of salt;
don’t turn around.
Tell me a story,
make it a good one.
You tell me yours, and I tell you mine
at the same time.
What I wanted to say,
I will say anyway.
It’s an open door
for you to ignore.
No heavenly chorus.
That tree in the wilderness,
the one falling down, making a sound,
it’s making a sound.
What did I do to you?
Was it a cold touch?
Or maybe a smile at the wrong time?
My timing is off.
What did I give to you?
Was it the wrong word,
garbled and strange, or simple and plain
but not nearly enough?
What I wanted to say
pulled hard at my tongue,
dropped from my mouth
unheard and unsung.
What’s a reply like?
What’s worth responding to?
Pillars of fire, one pillar of salt;
don’t turn around.
Tell me a story,
make it a good one.
You tell me yours, and I tell you mine
at the same time.
What I wanted to say,
I will say anyway.
It’s an open door
for you to ignore.
No heavenly chorus.
That tree in the wilderness,
the one falling down, making a sound,
it’s making a sound.
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Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton,
released 17 January 2012
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Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since
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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."
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