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Highway 89: A Travelogue

by Fyrce Muons

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1.
Aspen 06:14
We listened The lot of us on our backs silent Staring at the sky black as ice to glowing moon Not one word was even spoken although all our eyes were open Not even the fire could be heard Tubes pulsating orange heat silent under the cloak of the only sound The soft chorus of the shimmering aspen hiss A breathing silver sheet of beckoning snapping leaves Like those roadside balls that bounced off of one another until you got close and saw the real trick The heavens filled with a million fiery furnaces that for all their majesty could only offer us haunting twinkle The landscape hidden from view The shadows crisp Only the sound of the aspen The haunting noise of mortality Singing the song of eternity See the moon See it in my life Come and change This wound was easy prey Hear the wind The shadows of intent See the trees The stars become my bed See the moon See me in the end In my cold sleep Only bind simple reason reached Only in the cold dreaming In my cold dream Chaste bind severed Freeze her out the sunny skies of Rome Reason in my cold dream
2.
Canyons 04:07
Deep piercing shafts of nuclear light Blinding as we round the corner A glimpse of the mammoth glow wedged deeply in the groin of the canyon And back to dark my eyes filled with blind noise We feel the inertia of the huge Lincoln Continental as Pop careened the twisting turns Roiling rapids several meters down scattered boulder banks terrified Always with his cigar pumping plumes of ghastly blue nausea throughout the car And back and forth between darkness and floodlight Strobing back and forth and back and forth And suddenly the blast appears ahead of us and we are near the end I heat it I light it with angels I bring it I seed it I breathe it with angels I find it I hold it I greet it I shine it I shape it release it with angels It’s old as the mantle Rising perfection It’s old as a riddle A window for land and sky As you feel elation Cold as a vision’s age It’s path an incision It’s nothing but holding grace The canyons of lonely grace The sun of the visions The sun of amazing grace
3.
Cone 04:40
Projectiles with spikes tumbled about in the trunk Bold tight wound until the heat forces them to stretch their armor An explosion by fire It’s nothing I can take Falling ton this test Burning to the canvas skies the candle skulls The jingle in this ride A palindrome a fallen sage And all we do it all remains A better mind was had And all our indecisions Were the cool rains of relief And now I am content without your cunning soul of grief Counting all the deeds of demons sent to measure me Who can be my minister of peace It’s nothing I can take This fire about to break A million times a million lives The random spark this time is never mine I settle down to home And all we do it all remains
4.
Cranes 03:42
The cranes step cautiously through the snow The gray air hosts bubbles of heat rising from liquid pools Heated by the rich decay of fermenting swamp Angular wings shake frozen powder into puffs of smoke This slip of spring squall now hosts the lifelong lovers In their dance of eternal bond Night and day The bond we have between us carries hope All passion gone The love we have between us seems to come of age The tender mischief in these eyes stays there The touch of silence in our words can bare Final free To choose to be together without destiny We can be And only silence breaks the chain upon the door And then only cease It is one tie Night and day A promise wasn’t just another feathered dance I will lie Among the buried memories just to ease your pain Those tender bonds of love are always there
5.
Dugway 04:49
There are aliens at night in the desert We know we watched we waited for them Broad prone horizons broken by jagged tumble peaks The constant sound of subtle wind amplifying its’ call with a trillion grains of sand We found those aliens gathered round Whispering about neighbors in the stars Is it safe this To see it come And get inside it I feel the flame I hear it call I can’t remember the inside Grieve content Being now released Being now appears A deeper image now Each of us stumble and reach Into the summer of God I cannot dream in color Cause my camera was robbed A black night east of Ibapah Candles from another heaven Those mysteries from a summer camp Tell them their time has come The stars burn clear go tell everyone This gold heifer is the one to see In this sacred space Just to see them come Get in sight I see it fall I see the signs Be protect
6.
Geodes 03:30
Encased in a time Slave among the dying In a hollow I see We are taking this time Making this right In a wailing I see We are waiting in time In a wonder I see Blank screens Just keep in mind that the songs you sing be kind Don’t look away from the gnarled shell But enter in and be at peace What is taking its’ time With an oculant brine Now revealing I see We are losing all our time We are waiting for that time For revealing the see
7.
Hoodoos 04:23
Fairy chimneys Totems Tent rocks Sentinels Lot’s wives Court jesters of geology Disney spell Frivolous nature Pustule trunks Pylons of the wind Home of the goblins Mimic my trance
8.
Hovenweep 04:04
I think I just lost my nerve The spirits languish with fate Where they couldn’t keep roots With their flying illusions Innocent dry home kiva men The haunt of darker nights Snake gods brittle wind It was time to feel our host I catch that flight beyond the reach Over land and through the air Scattered stars we reach the nest The wings of beast the soul of bird Born away is reason Born away is my reason Wind into eye in this flying away
9.
Labyrinths 04:52
We had heard those stories as boys About the other ones before us Lost forever to die a blistered death Caught in the maze of the tumbled red canyons and crevices And should we fail to burn our trail into our adolescent brains The spirit of those who came before will take us to purgatory Lashing red Huge tongues jut over the empty space Fathoms below bellow beckoning shade And mystery and adventure Wind shape walls undulate upward A bright blue amulet of sky sliver wiggles away Sun moves the darkest and longest of shadows The bright crown of sky empties quickly As darkness blinds the ground As the panic begins you’re in this place The light at the end is just a tease The silence of life in gloom The smiles have turned to stone Behind the end is the steepest of ascents With every step the stones give way to keep you in their grave Using my might Born under siege Step by step to find the range Blinding souls Fill the night Hear their calls the moon will rise Breathing swirls Driven by haste Called to me in front of my face The last plateau I run so fast Don’t look up Don’t turn around Haunted fingers take you back
10.
Marsh 04:31
Watch your step In the reeds and dogwood trees The skimmers hunt for victims’ breath The spine of earth above the scum Meanders piracantha way As the sun below the lake The sound of night begins to take Ceremony I hear them O bend me some witches O take me my sentinel Too soon fire expose thee Blind faces soon encompass me My station my ecstasy Water tigers throw their weight around As dragonflies like Stukas feed Here the ground absorbs the corpse And turns what flesh is left to earth
11.
Mayflies 04:04
In another day we miss this flight With your sugar hair to the mirrored skies On another day we might not see our way In another voice In another day At another time we couldn’t have this place With a different wind you wouldn’t be my mate It’s just a single day in a million years In another voice With another tear
12.
Pebbles 04:00
At this first glow of the morning the water is as still as glass There is no wind even here high in the mountains It is August but our breath steams out from our noses like smoke There is not enough heat to drive even the tiniest breeze The mirrored surface reflects its’ soulless twin An image though accurate reflects only infinite perfection and an intoxicating illusion On such a morning a pebble might fly Heaved as far as the solitary boy can muster It drops with an inside out plop far out into the lake Concentric perfect waves roll away from the center of the disturbance The trees begin to melt and shake The rising peak wobbles like a drunken paint mixer As the waves begin to fade at the center the leading ring seems to grow All rushing towards me with gleaming leading edges Pulling the surface downwards as each wave passes Soon they hit the shore with tiny laps of splash Each rolling wave creates a sound a mile long And rebound back to fight against the their approaching brothers One small pebble one bit of earth breaking that glass skin
13.
Promentory 04:19
If you like constant attention from sand fleas If you like your legs being a piece of salted jerky If you love the smell of methane gas and rotting corpses Then this vacation spot is just for you Take down take down take down This postcard life we have agreed upon Take down take down surprise The path you saw is not the route you take Take down surprise take down You’re stranded life to be encased in clay Take down take down take down The ooze of life begins the dreaming chain Surprise
14.
Rips 04:25
We called it rip shitting A forty mile stretch of interstate straight as a compass flat No speed limit no light and a muscle car full of six young dudes Miles of white salt twinkling like snow under the moon occasional UFO Heading for an old B29 base at the state line Airport of choice for high rolling ranchers and smugglers Ghostly abandoned hangers and blinking red light on the dark desert floor On the mountain casinos blaze psychedelic among the jagged treeless A forty mile stretch of interstate straight as a compass flat No speed limit no light and a muscle car full of PCP We called it rip shitting Breathe in Stay calm Breathe in Begin Breathe in Reach time Breathe in Burn slow Breathe in White stars Breathe in Stay low
15.
Shallow 04:15
On a pedestal Is a sycophant With the method of dreams With a righteous nod Just a maitre de And his mythical way I can see the ruse I can smell the rot Of the singular ways Hone the lies Only Abel Born in dreams upon the sand The vision rules upon this land Hold your dreams in other hands Religion rules upon this land Born in dreams this arid land This vision from another man
16.
Snowfields 05:18
Tucked our camp just at the mountain’s edge Around the bend of a frozen stream on a protected flat Would be cold blitzkrieg of gigantic sheets of snowflakes Then wind came and more and more until fading before dawn Morning air so thick with cold the wind had frozen Scalloped hills fell away from our knife like den Desolate fields of stubble agriculture now lay ready for heaven Dressed in their sparkling white shrouds I take another pie slice It’s neither loose nor tight The certain life you see Was never meant to be a taste The avoid dance is a waste of a day The turn of a scene I hear no voice call Been bundled up all night It was the last cull Before the blanket covers me Shadows into the sun Shine is to be Cold indeed you see Somber grace be mine Born in need you will be So sharply your feast will cease Advantage the mind will bend But something now tells me that destiny lives in the end Waiting to take me home

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The second movement in the "Suite For Utah" explores the beauty of the state and how it influenced young adulthood.

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released November 15, 2017

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Fyrce Muons San Diego, California

Forty five years of gothic space punk and electro pop reminiscent of Krautrock. Fyrce Muons continue to defy any musical genre with their provocative concept albums, improvisational and surrealistic spoken word.

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