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by Michael Garfield

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The plains aflame with spring are purified to ash. The same refrain we sing for every year that comes to pass when everything we are erased, sprays to the stars bouquets transmuted by the change that overcame. When you and I now gaze into each other's eyes the pain of transformation burns that inner fire brighter. And everything we are expires through the heart and we both come apart to marry in the flame again.
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we ply in maps we are certain that the world fits on a page in a poem and believe that what we see doesn't slip into the discontinuities we use to lead our children through this quaint diorama we are real people living in our imagination at simile speed failing to keep up with a life led beyond a metaphor's needs that sheds and reissues all that continues without seams the dispersal of seeds we are all sages and saints waiting to happen we are real people living in our imagination and it is more beautiful than can be expected but we scratch and sniff at our books in attempts for the actual scent lord, we try to fade into the sky but we come home alone we come home small cuz no belief has any meat at all...
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Honey & Venom (2010) (free) 04:14
You want me acting like you're just another woman Don't want to live outside this moment with the serious things I might say to you So you're just another woman I'm just another man We're not the last two people or anything You never called me lover I never gave you cause It's such a sad strange shame, this drama, so I'm gonna tell you the truth Honey and venom, I'm a conduit I don't mean to be rude, but brave Words hurt when they go unsaid, so cover your ears, you'd rather not hear the few serious things I might say to you At least you know I mean them You just pretend you're casual like we are not both responsible And I can barely touch you cuz you shrink from grander plans out of fear it'll get out of hand So I have nothing to lose Honey and venom, I'm a conduit I don't mean to be rude, but babe your affections only come when boozed Hey, cover your ears you'd rather not hear the few serious things I might say to you And it's true that if we cannot bear the weight of our past relations who's to say that we could ever bear enough to love in spite of the pain we've caused to love in spite of pain? But you want me acting like you're just another woman So you can thank yourself when that's what I start doin, baby I'm just another man and we are both afraid of the serious things I might say to you
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The Sun Setting (2010) (free) 03:58
The sky was bronze bleeding We sat waiting to watch the sun setting But lord, our question's not in the sun nor is our answering You scream and you shout You pierce and you pout You clear and you cloud but still you get yourself into these circumstance that knock you down And until goal and ground that poor ego will not surrender, not surrender I knew you weren't asleep just dying to more and more and more one world at a time sinking sight through levels of illusion You scream and you shout You flee and you flout You shrine and you shroud but still you get yourself into these circumstance that knock you down And until goal and ground that poor ego will not surrender, not surrender Even now, you fight it
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River, river, carry me on Living river, carry me on River, river, carry me on To the place where I come from So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside River, show me how to float, I feel like I'm sinking down Thought that I could get along But here in this water, my feet won't touch the ground I need something to turn myself around Going away, away toward the sea River deep, can you lift up and carry me Oh roll on through the heartland 'Til the sun has left the sky River, river, carry me high 'Til the washing of the water, make it all alright Let your waters reach me, like she reached me tonight Letting go, it's so hard, the way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing, cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide River, oh river, river running deep Bring me something that will let me get to sleep In the washing of the water will you take it all away Bring me something to take this pain away
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I went out on a limb grasping at all of the pretty things I've seen recur in my time machine dream and fell asleep naïve unaware I might never find my way to back to the tree here I lay, lost enchanted underneath the canopy of fantasy and I won't ever come back We are threaded through time by people we intuit we could be mistranslating infinite peace but when I recognize my higher nature peck the shell I'll split this cell differentiate, but stay and in remaining, meditate on gleaming grace that I don't ever come back
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t-plus one million seconds since we were shut in air one-half atmosphere, tasting faintly of tin food from a tube and crewmates rude from strain countdown five years until we'll feel rain again muscles atrophy but appetites grow we take up new habits to stay in control in gravity, love was clumsy and raced but coitus goes slow in zero with grace so kick off your flight suit and join me tumbling above the beds where mere mortals make love you know I want you we both have nowhere to go watching our world in the rearview window it's a wafer-thin lifeboat, keeping our cosm contained borne to the cosmos, bearing our lives in its frame minds made to wander wither when shut in a pen but in zero with grace there's infinite space and so few other men in gravity, love was just part of the game but here it appears we need love to keep ourselves sane so kick off your flightsuit and join me tumbling above the beds where mere mortals make love you know I want you we both have nowhere to go watching our world in the rearview window kick out the cameras and let's slink off alone from disappointed viewers at home I know you want to we both have nowhere to go till we're rich but wish we'd kept video
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Spokes (2009) (free) 03:43
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Bête Moiré (2009) (free) 03:24
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You simmering heat You morning dew I have to quiet so far down to hear you Your yearning voice, whispering carries away the louder sounds I'm used to I'm a rounded stone in a trickling stream a glowing coal enwombed in ashy bedding Erode away my name and face my time and space to deeper places than I've given you Relax your gates My love awaits to fold into your quiet depths and patient truths to couple with the subtle grace that lives through you...
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Let it all get out Set it all splayed there on the table If we're to make this work none of our horses can stay in the stable chomping at the bit churning up dust with restless hooves Empty your pockets and unpack the boxes you've left underfoot And let it all get out Open up your heart and throat and sacrum If we're to see this through we must see through our explanations Squeezing till it hurts and squandering our limited resources and begging for the worst to justify our wasted sacred forces It's time for full disclosure time this cold war's over time to own our demons time to meet our reasons time to bare our teeth and let the plovers clean them And let it all get out Stand up and uncap that volcano If we're to live at all we must acknowledge the buried anger pushing at our doors a still unexploited energy source So dig to the core and do not be afraid of who you are, anymore
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You can watch the video for this track at http://youtube.com/michaelgarfield I'm falling out of these open eyes filling up all of the world outside I'm seeing more than fits in my mind spilling the bliss out through bright surprise If there's one thing I know, it's that angels appear when you stop trying to prove them and the clouds clear you don't have to move I'm falling out of these open eyes challenging all my ideas of size What was once narrow feels miles wide all of a sudden in all of time

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Michael Garfield Santa Fe, New Mexico

Singer-songwriter, avant-guitarist, and live electronic producer all at once, Michael's dynamic live shows and intricate albums takes listeners on emotional trips spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde.

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