Track Insight / Lyrics
You trace the mortar joints with grease-stained fingertips
Quercus rubra drops its armor on the pavement
The Rickenbacker growls low between your hips
Compression builds in cylinders and basalt
Engine herbarium, roots in gasoline
Engine herbarium, pistons turning green
You read the sidewalk like a taxonomic key
Nitrous bloom where history and horsepower meet
Acer saccharum bleeds sugar on the header
You gap the plugs with surgical precision
The cymbals crash like falling leaves in September
Torque wrench clicks — a perfect germination
Engine herbarium, roots in gasoline
Engine herbarium, pistons turning green
You read the sidewalk like a taxonomic key
Nitrous bloom where history and horsepower meet
Hedera helix climbs the intake manifold
You listen for the knock, the ping, the hiss
The bass line walks where cobblestones are installed
Each revolution roots the machine deeper
Engine herbarium, roots in gasoline
Engine herbarium, pistons turning green
You read the sidewalk like a taxonomic key
Nitrous bloom where history and horsepower meet
No field guide covers this hybridization
Steel and chlorophyll in strange communion
The tachometer climbs — photosynthesis
Redline blooms in October's final afternoon
You wipe the dipstick clean on Beacon Hill brick
The engine breathes, a living classification
No herbarium sheet could hold this dynamic
Nitrous-fed and rooted in foundation
Engine herbarium, roots in gasoline
Engine herbarium, pistons turning green
You read the sidewalk like a taxonomic key
Nitrous bloom where history and horsepower meet
Engine herbarium — the machine is blooming
Engine herbarium — steel and chlorophyll consuming
Brick dust settles. The specimen runs
Roots hold torque. The autumn comes
