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Garry Shandling

by Joseph Mooradian

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This song is about/inspired by Garry Shandling. It feels like a new year’s song to me, a way to say goodbye to things that were shitty this year. Glad to have it out. Maybe it’ll help you like it helped me.

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Has it been a long enough time
To let the rock slip sideways?
Fissures crack my life out of rhyme
To find the meaning in my good days

Have I lived here too long?

There must have been a rhythm I missed
In the bedrock pulsing
The routines that diminish the risk
Were good enough to hold me

Have I given enough?
Have I given too much?

Garry Shandling drew his empty circle
That’s a drawing I’ve drawn too
A simple image I’d seen before
But when I saw his, it felt brand new

Can I empty each song?

Pen and paper and an empty circle
Do you think that it could change you?
A well dug deep into nothing
Earth and shadow make one and two

Can I empty each song?

There must have been a rhythm I missed
Every measure a mystery
A bulb buzzing to beat on the wrist
To bend down and hold me

Have I given enough?
Have I given too much?

Has it been a long enough time
To let my soul slip sideways?
Every question teases the rhyme
That makes meaning where there is nothing

Have I lived here too long?
Can I empty each song?

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released December 26, 2020

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Joseph Mooradian Nashville, Tennessee

Joseph writes all the time and records some of the time.

His recent collection, Hummer, is about shootings, smiling, the plummeting bird population, laughing, and even (unfortunately/briefly) politics.

When he’s not writing/recording, he keeps busy in Nashville, TN, with domestic life: reading, walking, working on his house, cooking/eating, and watching plenty of stuff.
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