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Growth

from Control Songs by David Garland

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Growth

Growth’s not growth if it’s prescribed growth.

Growth is only growth when it breaks with the prescribed form.

Mostly what passes for growth is the fulfillment of 
Prescribed expectations.

One learns, bit by bit, how to be a boy, etcetera.

One grows into, not out of–

into, not out of prescribed expectations.

A culture determines its character

by slandering alternatives, and encouraging

growth on its own terms.
Describing prescriptive restrictions,
describing prescriptive restrictions...

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from Control Songs, released September 1, 1986

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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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