Track Insight / Lyrics
You count teeth on brass gear wheels
Oil stains your thumb like chlorophyll
Mainspring coils, a sleeping fern
Tick tock root, the night unfurls
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Pendulum swings, a metronome breath
Seconds root in loam and death
Escapement soil holds time in trust
Gravel driveway, copper rust
You unwind where quartz meets clay
Hands grow stiff, then green, then gray
Lathe shavings curl like tendrils pale
You file a tooth, you breathe in loam
Quercus alba in the gale
Clockwork heart beats slow, beats home
[Pre-
Pendulum swings, a metronome breath
Seconds root in loam and death
Escapement soil holds time in trust
Gravel driveway, copper rust
You unwind where quartz meets clay
Hands grow stiff, then green, then gray
Mentha piperita springs from crack
Gear train hums a photosynthesis
Scent of mint on broken back
Light fails fast, the dark grows thick
Roots penetrate the brass casing
Time dissolves in patient aging
No winding key can halt the rot
Chronos feeds what gears forgot
Escapement soil holds time in trust
Gravel driveway, copper rust
You unwind where quartz meets clay
Hands grow stiff, then green, then gray
Morning finds the movement stopped
Seedlings sprout from mainspring steel
Sap rises where the oil dropped
Time keeps perfect, organic heal
Escapement soil holds time in trust
Gravel driveway, copper rust
You unwind where quartz meets clay
Hands grow stiff, then green, then gray
Roots now tell the hours true
Botanist clockmaker, you
Gravel crunches, no more ticks
Time grows wild where roots have grown