Track Insight / Lyrics
Rain slicks the projector lens
Film spooled tight at three AM
Kanji ghosts on brick and steel
Wait for morning, wait for real
No one buys a ticket here
Light cuts through the dripping dark
Carbon arcs leave silver marks
Voices rise from concrete seams
Tokyo trembles in our dreams
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, call the name
We are dust and we are spark
Burning in the projector dark
Alley light, hold the frame
Sake cups and cigarette ash
Neon bleeds on wet trash
She watches from the fire escape
Smoke curls round her porcelain face
Rewinds the reel with steady hands
Light cuts through the dripping dark
Carbon arcs leave silver marks
Voices rise from concrete seams
Tokyo trembles in our dreams
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, call the name
We are dust and we are spark
Burning in the projector dark
Alley light, hold the frame
First train shudders overhead
Dreams dissolve in gray and red
He threads the gate with calloused thumb
Hears the city slowly come
Aperture clicks, the moment gone
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, call the name
We are dust and we are spark
Burning in the projector dark
Alley light, hold the frame
Umbrellas bloom like paper flowers
Sidewalk symphonies of hours
She folds her coat against the chill
Stands beneath the window sill
Two silhouettes in silver rain
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, call the name
We are dust and we are spark
Burning in the projector dark
Alley light, hold the frame
Harmonica takes the melody
Pedal steel bends memory
Choir breath in unison
Alto lines where we belong
Final reel spins into dawn
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, call the name
We are dust and we are spark
Burning in the projector dark
Alley light, hold the frame
Alley light, hold the frame
Carbon fades to morning white
Alley light, hold the frame