Track Insight / Lyrics
Fog eats the bridge where the brass eye waits
Geiger clicks count down the exclusion gates
My cab sits idle on the cracked cold slate
No fares tonight, just the hands of fate
Brass telescope watches the mist rise slow
Steel river humming a song we know
Zone keeps its secrets, the counter sings
Night driver waits for the dawn it brings
Lens coated green by the zone's own breath
Measures the distance to life and death
Bridge groans beneath the weight of years
Holding the dark between its piers
Brass telescope watches the mist rise slow
Steel river humming a song we know
Zone keeps its secrets, the counter sings
Night driver waits for the dawn it brings
Radio static, the dispatcher's gone
Only the ticks keep marching on
Thermos cold, coffee turned to tar
Reading the night by a dying star
Old hands know when the weather turns
Joints ache deep where the marrow burns
Zone don't care for a working man's prayer
Brass holds its ground in the poisoned air
Crosshairs settle on a phantom deer
Standing where the river runs clear
Snapshot of a world that used to be
Before the atom cracked the key
Brass telescope watches the mist rise slow
Steel river humming a song we know
Zone keeps its secrets, the counter sings
Night driver waits for the dawn it brings
Dawn breaks grey on the concrete spine
Counter slows to a steadier time
Engine turns over, the cab pulls away
Another night done, another day's pay
Brass telescope watches the mist rise slow
Steel river humming a song we know
Zone keeps its secrets, the counter sings
Night driver waits for the dawn it brings
Brass on the bridge where the mist rises slow
Geiger falls silent as the wheels hit the road
Home by noon with a lighter load