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The Sun Setting

from Rites of Passage: Live at Burning Man 2011 by Michael Garfield

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"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us; they say, 'Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride…' And we…kill those people."
– Bill Hicks

“It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice that you call YOUR OWN should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically ONE in all men, nay in all sensitive beings. The conditions for your existence are almost as old as the rocks. For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light on the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. WAS he someone else? Was it not YOU yourself?”
– Ernst Schroedinger

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the sky was bronze bleeding
we sat waiting to watch the sun setting
but our question’s not in the sun
nor is its answering
you scream and you shout
you pierce and you pout
you clear and you cloud
but still you get yourself into these
circumstances that knock you down
and until goal and ground
that poor ego will not surrender, can not surrender.
i knew you weren’t asleep, just dying to 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 shine and you shroud
but still you get yourself into these
circumstances that knock you down
and until goal and ground
that poor ego will not surrender, can not surrender!
even now, you fight it...

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from Rites of Passage: Live at Burning Man 2011, released November 11, 2011

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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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