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This Is Love

I’m at home every evening.

Home sweet home, hang your hat.

Watch TV, read a book,

change the channel, turn the page.

I can speak, I can listen.

With my mouth, with my ears.

Spoken words—please repeat.

Please repeat spoken words.

What’s your name, what’s your number?

Is it Sue, is it five?

So they say, so they tell me,

so I’m told. What’s your name?

I’ll invite you home.

You can walk on my stairs, you can eat my food.

Place your hand in mine, face the music.

Move closer. Make a wish, the time when dreams come true is here.

What is this? This is lovely!

This is love, this is love.

All grown up, wearing outfits—

brand new shoes and a tie.

In the end human frailty

does us in, in the end.

In the sky: nice bright sun.

On the wind: tiny birds.

Everything has its season:

Mosquitoes and snowballs.

Never late or on time:

mosquitoes and snowballs.

They will smite you down.

But then I will come by and I’ll pick you up.

You just looked at your wristwatch.

Never mind, I’ve got time.
Take the lamp from the shelf,
bring it near and turn it on.

Dim the light, how romantic!

You sit here, I’ll sit there.

I can breathe, my heart beats.

List the things that you have done.

I once rode on the subway.

I have read several books.

I can cook. I can swim—

and there’s more, there’s still more.

Tiny birds fly by.

They’ve gone south, and I guess I’ll be going too.

Hear the thunderclap, see the lightning.

Find shelter, look alive! The rain is pouring in the cracks.

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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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