"The Sun Setting" & "Foyer" at Art Outside 2010

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Michael Garfield performs fingerstyle avant-anthem "The Sun Setting," leading into improvised acoustic loopscape "Foyer," at Austin's Art Outside Festival (23 October 2010).

"The Sun Setting" is a rebuke to "spiritual bypassing" - the belief that meditation, prayer, or other practices will allow you to escape from your self. On the contrary, they tend only to make a person's issues worse - cloaked under a guise of spiritual purity, where they are invisible and inaccessible to the only one who can do anything about them.

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Lyrics:

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
and yet 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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Tags:

• acoustic
• guitar
• looping
• tapping
• fingerstyle
• Michael Garfield
• Michael Hedges
• Andy McKee
• CandyRat
• Art Outside
• Martin Guitars
• LR Baggs
• Leo Kottke
• Austin
• Texas

[ngodupsangpo]

This is a nice one Michael. LOVE