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My first try at this song appeared on my 2000 album My Vortex Camera. Sometimes songs continue to evolve after recordings have been issued, and it took me until now to feel ready to make a new recording that could do justice to what this song needed to be. Artist Kristin Cammermeyer has produced a video to go with My Tiny Life, and I hope you'll seek that out to experience the song in that form, too.
—David Garland, 2020
lyrics
My Tiny Life
My tiny life—
Circumscribed by a moment or two of a part
of a moment when you and I start
looking further than just right in front of right here,
contained and confined by our fear
of containment, confinement, and fear
of just being just only just here
for just such a tiny time in our tiny lives.
Oh, my tiny life.
A brief interlude of bad attitude; a short episode in a lachrymose mode; no sooner begun than pretty much done; my glimpse of the sun—my tiny life.
Unprepared for the limits so quickly defined
by the limits prepared by my mind,
with each thing that I’m choosing, I’m loosing the rest,
forgoing the knowing of an always growing,
refining, defining collection
of things I’ve not done
with just such a tiny time for my tiny life,
my tiny life, tiny life.
With just such a tiny time for my tiny life—
oh, my tiny life.
credits
released May 19, 2020
David Garland - vocal, modified 12-string guitar, piano
Julian Lampert - double bass
produced, recorded and mixed by David Garland
cover image by Kristin Cammermeyer from "Studio Play No. 1"
cover design by DG
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."
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