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Santa Fe Sunset

from Road Movie by MDH

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"there's something remarkable out in the west"

Kieron had heard somewhere that the best sunsets are in the Santa Fe area. When we were in Santa Fe it was cloudy…

“The roads we take take us through breathtaking vistas – and such variety – to the point where we are almost glazed over and taking them for granted by late afternoon. We see green-spotted desert, panoramas that go on for states, stack mountains, bright chilli-red rock faces, forest, and a huge area of grassland surrounded by mountains so it looks like a vast, green lake. The beautiful scenery is fantastic but puts us behind the clock with over 180 miles to go, luckily the roads start to co-operate. We emerge from the scenic route to hit 85mph for a solid hour with barely any traffic and no less breathtaking scenery. The ever-lowering sun beams back of the road surface while casting long shadows across the CGI-perfect sprawl to the left and right. The road-arcs start to look like Saturn’s rings as we glide through mountains and canyons. We stop for supplies then turn left towards our intended destination – Shiprock – due west towards the Arizona border. The driving conditions become very difficult in the best possible way – we are driving due west as the sun sets. We slow to a good 20 below the limit as the sun stares right at us like a crosshair. It finally drops and we eventually arrive in Shiprock through sporadic (sometimes momentary) rain showers.”

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the sun still goes down in London town
and it sure is a sight to behold
before the night sky steals the light from your eye
you get fireworks and lava and gold

there’s beauty and splendour wherever you look
but I can’t seem to see none somehow

we still have dark clouds in my old hometown
they fill up til no starlight remains
the ocean gets deeper from blue into grey
it knows no deeper comfort than rain

there’s something remarkable out in the west
out there still movin on down

of all of the things that we planned to see
we’ll – save for the photos – forget
of all of the things that they told us about
they said we ain’t seen nothin yet

a bald eagle’s claw or a rattlesnake’s jaw
but we never saw a Santa Fe sunset – did we?

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from Road Movie, released September 1, 2014

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