Track Insight / Lyrics
Dosimeter clipped to a worn canvas strap
Mist eats the cables, thick as wet wool
Voice one reads numbers, steady, flat
Voice two counts frames, the film spool full
Bridge frequency, hold the line
Geiger sings in quarter time
Bridge frequency, don't fade out
Static writes what words leave out
Rusted girder ribs against pale sky
Operator adjusts the gain knob slow
Runaway loads Tri-X, hands dry
Shutter snaps the cable's yellow glow
Bridge frequency, hold the line
Geiger sings in quarter time
Bridge frequency, don't fade out
Static writes what words leave out
Concrete pillars sunk in poison clay
Logbook entries dated ninety-three
Expired film catches grey on grey
Neither voice asks what the numbers mean
Needle jumps at pylon three
Aperture wide, let the dark breathe
Frequency drifts, then locks again
Two witnesses where none remain
Bridge frequency, hold the line
Geiger sings in quarter time
Bridge frequency, don't fade out
Static writes what words leave out
Bus ticket tucked in a lead-lined sleeve
Coordinates read, then torn in half
Last frame winds, the camera leaves
Signal holds along the ferrous path
Bridge frequency, hold the line
Geiger sings in quarter time
Bridge frequency, don't fade out
Static writes what words leave out
Bridge frequency, hold the line
Geiger sings in quarter time
Seventeen hundred, clear and cold
Negative developed, story told
