"You Don't Have To Move" & "8:33" at 11:11 Wellness

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Michael Garfield performs his avant-guitar opus "You Don't Have To Move" at 11:11 Wellness in Boulder, Colorado (11 February, 2011).

"You Don't Have To Move" is a taoist pop song written on a trampoline at Burning Man - a pronoiac reminder that when we get out of the way of ourselves, marvelous things occur.

"8:33," the half-improvised coda that grew out of "Move" on tour, is a programmatic journey through the apocalypse and out the other side.

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Lyrics:
I'm falling out of these open eyes
filling up all of the world outside
I'm seeing more than fits in my mind
all of a sudden, in all of time
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 is miles wide
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
and angels appear when you stop trying to prove them

Category:

Music

Tags:

• acoustic
• guitar
• looping
• tapping
• fingerstyle
• Michael Garfield
• Michael Hedges
• Andy McKee
• CandyRat
• Martin Guitars
• LR Baggs
• Leo Kottke
• Boulder
• Colorado
• 11:11
• Burning Man
• Antoine DuFour
• Don Ross
• acoustic guitar

[Berlusfan]

tempo is totally wrong

[michaelgarfield]

@Berlusfan, how you you have it? faster or slower? criticism is useless unless you suggest a better alternative...

[Berlusfan]

For the loop you play two times the same rythmic pattern. The second time is too late.

[AlienIntuition]

Dat's pretty epic.