Track Insight / Lyrics
I walk where the Salix grows tall
Where the river stones start to fall
I search for a root in the clay
To keep the cold winter away
Oh, it's brass and river mud
Deep inside the winter flood
Frozen gears and a golden face
Finding home in a lonely place
I found a small watch in the grit
Where the moss and the iron sit
It slept by the bridge in the haze
Counting down all the lonely days
Oh, it's brass and river mud
Deep inside the winter flood
Frozen gears and a golden face
Finding home in a lonely place
I brush off the silt and the lime
I treat it like slow growing thyme
It needs a soft touch and some care
To wake from the damp river air
Oh, it's brass and river mud
Deep inside the winter flood
Frozen gears and a golden face
Finding home in a lonely place
A stranger stopped by on the street
Where the concrete and wild grass meet
He saw the gold shine in my hand
A spark in a gray urban land
Syllables move like a steady beat
Walking a path on a frozen street
I wind the key and the ticking starts
Beating fast like two waking hearts
The gear turns a circle of light
Breaking through the urban night
The metal is warm in my palm
Bringing a strange kind of calm
Oh, it's brass and river mud
Deep inside the winter flood
Frozen gears and a golden face
Finding home in a lonely place
Gold in the gray
Gold in the gray
Tick tick, click click, stay.
