Track Insight / Lyrics
You scan the canyon with glass eyes bright
The morning sun cuts through pale dust light
Your fingers dance on decks of wire
Chasing signals through the fire
Salt wind never reached this stone
But I know the pull of light alone
You hunt a code beneath the rim
While kelp forests sway where I've been
Desert lantern, burning slow
Salt in the wound, sand in the glow
You keep the watch where no shore breaks
Desert lantern, whatever it takes
Night holds its breath around this place
Three lenses glow beneath the brim
The mesa hums a low static hymn
Data bleeds from fractured rock
You parse the noise, you check the clock
No foghorn sounds this far from tide
Just quartz and heat spread open wide
But keepers know the lonely art
Of holding flame in darkest heart
Desert lantern, burning slow
Salt in the wound, sand in the glow
You keep the watch where no shore breaks
Desert lantern, whatever it takes
Night holds its breath around this place
The canyon walls hold copper veins
You drink the rush, ignore the pains
A satellite arcs overhead
You catch the word the silent said
Desert lantern, burning slow
Salt in the wound, sand in the glow
You keep the watch where no shore breaks
Desert lantern, whatever it takes
Night holds its breath around this place
Your oculars map the thermal dance
A ghost ship lost by pure chance
No barnacles on steel and chrome
Just dust and code and far from home
Desert lantern, burning slow
Salt in the wound, sand in the glow
You keep the watch where no shore breaks
Desert lantern, whatever it takes
Night holds its breath around this place
The sun drops low, the shadows stretch
You found the node, you caught the fetch
The data hums in copper wire
You build your fire, cold and higher
Desert lantern, burning slow
Salt in the wound, sand in the glow
You keep the watch where no shore breaks
Desert lantern, whatever it takes
Night holds its breath around this place
The beam sweeps wide across the waste
Salt remembers what the sand forgets
Desert lantern, the watch never sets
