So Rip Gerber wrote this track called ‘Mister Happy.’ He made a song that drags you out into the desert with him, Burning Man, the dust, the drugs, the weird kindness that happens out there when everything else strips away.

‘Grief, Dust, Loyalty.’

The song’s rough in that way that feels real, like someone talking to you in the middle of the night when they’ve already had the conversation with themselves a hundred times. There’s no big chorus trying to save you. No string section pulling heartstrings. Just a guy with a guitar telling the truth about what he saw, what he lost, and what he’s still trying to figure out. It’s not a song for the charts. It’s a song for the friend you still think about when you’re staring at the ceiling. For the version of you that needed someone like Erik in the middle of your own storm.

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