Track Insight / Lyrics
I rode inside a canvas sack
Through mountain pass and railroad track
My needle shook but held the line
Through salt spray and the drifting brine
Now the engine coughs and dies
Floodlights paint the pumpkin skies
Driver lights a cigarette
Swears he ain't lost nothing yet
I point north but north don't care
Broken glass and diesel air
Needle spins on battered brass
Finds the top but misses class
Steady now, steady now
Kerosene lamps I used to know
Thirty years of beam and glow
Now I taste the exhaust fume
In this plastic, glowing tomb
Map is soaked with coffee stains
Driver checks his phone again
Signal dies at county line
He'll drive on borrowed time
I point north but north don't care
Broken glass and diesel air
Needle spins on battered brass
Finds the top but misses class
Steady now, steady now
Lighthouse keepers know the weight
Of holding ground while storms create
Chaos on the rocky shore
Light keeps sweeping, nothing more
I point north but north don't care
Broken glass and diesel air
Needle spins on battered brass
Finds the top but misses class
Steady now, steady now
Courier's hands are cracked and red
Dreams of quilts and feather bed
But the route don't care for sleep
Promises are yours to keep
I point north but north don't care
Broken glass and diesel air
Needle spins on battered brass
Finds the top but misses class
Steady now, steady now
Dawn will bleed through dirty glass
Another tank of cheapened gas
I'll keep pointing, faithful, true
North don't ask for much from
