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The Best of Both Worlds

from Togetherness (Control Songs, Vol. 2) by David Garland

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The Best of Both Worlds

The beam is broad and comprehensive,

circling ’round our spheroid globe.
All are seen, and all are listed
by the omnipotent amoeboid probe.

What’s the source of all this spying?
Who is eyeing the whole complex?

I’ve got an inkling it’s more than a sprinkling
of investigative rays from Planet X! Planet X! Planet X!

Planet X is still not satisfied.

They’re still yearning to learn about a few of us,
get a message through to us,
break across their boundaries,
and make a few friends.

A lot like I do, but with different means to ends.

If I could only go there and visit for a while,
I’d be cosmic-politan in a truly far out style.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

I’d be reading Chaucer in a flying saucer;

I could do what’s practical, while doing what’s galactical.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

I could drive old-fashioned cars across the red canals of Mars.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

I could sit and sip some tea on the rocks of Mercury.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

I could dream of Earth-bound days while getting tan with cosmic rays.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

I could sing a really hep tune in the liquid air of Neptune.

I’d have the best of both worlds.

With the girls of Planet X, I could have some wonderful—

I want the best of both worlds.

I would study daily in a class taught by an alien.

He would teach the human race how to live in outer space.

And in return I’d teach him all
of what I know about the Ridgewood Mall.

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from Togetherness (Control Songs, Vol. 2), released September 1, 1999

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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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