Track Insight / Lyrics
**Lyrics:**
You hold the line where water breathes
Night shift starts on steel and leaves
You pace the grate in wool and grain
The river exhales specter steam
Your badge catches sodium stain
No suspect moves beneath the beam
Quercus roots would know the weight
Of standing sentinel in loam
You track the current's silent gait
And make the night your temporary home
Bridge watch, you hold the span
Bridge watch, the only man
Mist rises, but you remain
Roots deep in gravel, ignoring rain
Radio coughs a static phrase
You tap ash on oxidized steel
The city sleeps in amber haze
While you tend the wound that cannot heal
Bridge watch, you hold the span
Bridge watch, the only man
Mist rises, but you remain
Roots deep in gravel, ignoring rain
Xylem pulls the dark stream
Phloem feeds the waking crown
You are the hyphae, unseen
Binding what was broken down
Dawn bleeds through stratus, thin and gray
The mist retracts like held breath released
Your shift ends, but the bridge will stay
Anchored where the current ceased
You fold the coat, shake off the dew
Latin names for what you guarded here
Taxodium stands where waters grew
Another night. Another year.
Bridge watch, you held the span
Bridge watch, the only man
Mist rises, but you remain
Roots deep in gravel, ignoring rain
The bridge remembers your boot print
Taxodium drinks the morning
