On Planet X

from Control Songs by David Garland

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On Planet X

There’s a room with a window, 
and there’s glass in its frame. 
When it’s clean, I can see that 
far away it’s not the same.

Some of the probes launched into space 
are sending back pictures of neighboring planets. 
The list of landscapes grows and grows and grows and grows.

There’s a world based on ammonia, 
shrouded in an acrid cloud. 
As for me, I’m based on carbon— 
just another face in the crowd.

On Planet X the rock formations 
look like cathedrals gone awry. 
On Planet Q flying saucers 
are the passé way to fly. 
Meanwhile, my apartment’s tiny, 
and the bus is often late. 
I’ll be stuck here for a light-year 
if I keep on at this rate. 
Planet X holds my heart in its cusp in the dark. 
The list of landscapes grows and grows and grows and grows.

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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."
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