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The Golden Years

Place a ban on blandishments,

please banish blandishments today
for all of the remaining years.

Platitudinarians

are exiled to the hinterland

for all of the remaining years.

Blandishments are banned, they can’t
be brandished by the folks who try

to coax you over to their side.

Platitudes are pulverized,

and euphemisms vanish in

the dawning of the Golden Years.

—The Golden Years!

The Golden Years will be a time

when no one needs to work or eat

and everyone has everything.

The Golden Years will bring about
a harmony unheard before,

where dissonance is gone for good.

The Golden Years will vindicate

our dream of finally founding
a Utopia right here on Earth.

Our first step in making all
our dreams become reality

is simply to begin the ban.

Place a ban on blandishments,

please banish blandishments today

for all of the remaining years.

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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."
--Sean Lennon
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