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How To

Fold along the dotted line,
tab A fits in slot 9
like your hand fits in mine.
Turn the gasket to the right,
secure it good and tight,
like when you say goodnight.

I have been hunting high and low
for the instructions that
might show
me how to build a birch bark canoe,
or a life here with you.
I just want to know how to.

My instruction manual
is written by our years of gestures, each a clue.
Look me in the eye and then just follow directions
and you too can know how to.

On page two-hundred and nineteen,
at the top there’s a diagram
marked figure four twenty-three.
Multiply the vector of my gesture
and just add the end result
to all the crazy things I’ve done,
and all the crazy things I meant to do.
By this formula we’ll muddle through,
and construe how to.
I must say I have to doubt
that you could figure out
what we are all about.

Just remember it was planned,
we moved at fate’s command
when you first held my hand.

Fate or volition, I don’t know
how to decode the ebb and flow
that draws us near
and pulls us apart,
shapes us each, mind and heart.
I just want to know how to.

Close your eyes
and then you’ll view
the map from me to you,
the answer to how to.

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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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