Track Insight / Lyrics
You sweep the beam across the cracked pavement seams
Where Artemisia claims the fissures deep
The sodium hum trembles in your steady beams
Roots drink the spilled cola in their sleep
Beacon in asphalt, you hold the night
Quercus roots remember patient light
Phosphor and chlorophyll share the air
You name each shade with a botanist's care
The sign flickers vacancy in bruised magenta
Pinus needles gather at the gutter's curve
You trace taxonomy in the cement
Latin names bloom where headlights never serve
Beacon in asphalt, you hold the night
Quercus roots remember patient light
Phosphor and chlorophyll share the air
You name each shade with a botanist's care
Salvia divinorum sighs within the drain
You answer softly, nomenclature precise
The watchman's log holds no genus domain
Only your voice becomes a living device
Beacon in asphalt, you hold the night
Quercus roots remember patient light
Phosphor and chlorophyll share the air
You name each shade with a botanist's care
Night deepens, beetles trace the gutter's rim
You catalog each creature, root, and stem
No specimen too small for your regard
The flashlight writes a hymn on broken shard
Dawn bleeds pale through motel window glass
You fold the beam, the night shift now complete
Artemisia nods in morning grass
Your Latin litany turns finally sweet
Beacon in asphalt, you hold the night
Quercus roots remember patient light
Phosphor and chlorophyll share the air
You name each shade with a botanist's care
Beacon in asphalt, the names remain
Roots hold the dark where you swept the plain
Beacon in asphalt, the names remain
Roots hold the dark where you swept the plain
