Track Insight / Lyrics
She walks the tracks where diesel breathes
Camera clicking cold steel teeth
Brass key hangs on a leather string
No lock to turn, no door to bring
Brass key watches, brass key waits
Through the fog and iron gates
No door exists, no frame to find
Just rust and rail and quiet mind
Brass key keeps its silent time
She frames the yard in morning gray
Boxcars sleeping, wheels at bay
Key catches light, a golden flash
No past to unlock, no future stash
Brass key watches, brass key waits
Through the fog and iron gates
No door exists, no frame to find
Just rust and rail and quiet mind
Brass key keeps its silent time
Conductor shouts, the schedule calls
She climbs a fence, the wire falls
Key heavy now against her chest
Opens nothing, puts fear to rest
Fog lifts slow like curtain drawn
Tracks gleam wet in newborn dawn
She sees the key was never meant
For doors that lock or walls of cement
But for the watching, for the moment
Shutter snaps the rising sun
Key and rail now dance as one
No door needed, never was
Just witness to the passing buzz
Brass key watches, brass key waits
Through the fog and iron gates
No door exists, no frame to find
Just rust and rail and quiet mind
Brass key keeps its silent time
Bus arrives on gravel shoulder
She boards with photos, growing bolder
Brass key stays on the signal post
Guarding tracks and fog and ghost
Brass key watches, brass key waits
Through the fog and iron gates
No door exists, no frame to find
Just rust and rail and quiet mind
Brass key keeps its silent time
Brass key watches, brass key stays
Through the fog and all the days
