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Good Design

Form and function follow purpose,
purpose formed in shape and line.
It results from your intention,
intent defined in your design.

Make a mark on your blank paper,
take a look at what you’ve found.
If it fails, then start all over.
Over all, your design is sound.
Over all, your design is sound.

Take a pencil, make a drawing,
drawing on what we’ve discussed.
Good design requires planning,
and plans require hope and trust
—and a little bit of future.

Every plan presumes there’s time to reach an outcome.
Why design a future if I’m living without one?
Nothing gets designed when I’m feeling resigned.

Lots of factors offer input.
Put ’em in perspective and let ’em combine.
Subject it all to distillation.
Then what’s left is your design
—and a little bit of future.

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from On the Other Side of the Window, released September 1, 2003

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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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