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Every Bird

from Noise In You by David Garland

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Every Bird

Waiting in the wings of every bird
are memories that fill the hollow bone.
Flexible as flame or as the rain,
they find their way without being shown.
You can call it fate or instinct
or a sixth sense,
or a tumbling down, a failing of alternatives
that are too immense.
Birds’ eyes view what I can’t see and I can’t know:
Pterodactyls and the fractal form
and a lack of vertigo.

The truth, the proof, is incontrovertible.
I feel the muscle that pulls,
the muscle that lifts me higher up.
The truth, the proof, is incontrovertible.

Estimating lift and load, and wind velocity
while you’re in the air,
dodging the abyss like this, while falling into it
is more than I dare.
I’m not sure my wingspan reaches
quite far enough,
but I have a plan to tumble unrestrainedly
and see where I end up.

The truth, the proof, the rope and the noose;
the ruse, the roof and the floor;
the door, the don’t and the do;
the me and the you.
The grasp, the gasp, the grunt and the groan;
alone, again and again;
the bone, the rain and the flame;
nothing’s the same.

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from Noise In You, released April 24, 2007
David Garland: vocals, 12-string guitar, electric guitar, acoustic bass guitar, pocket clarinet, piano, etc. 

Sufjan Stevens: vocals,
Mira Romantschuk: vocals

Brendon Massei (Viking Moses): vocals 


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David Garland New York, New York

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