Track Insight / Lyrics
Leatherette peels on Beacon Hill brick
Cold coffee steam makes the mortar stick
Twenty exposures, zero prints to show
Shutter clicks slow where the tourists go
Fixed focus on a dead-end street
Light writes the news my silver can't keep
Fixed focus, no chemicals left
Boston bricks hold the latent theft
Regulars order the same gray sky
Wind flips the page on a rolled-up lie
ISO four hundred, pushed to sixteen
Latent images on a dead machine
Fixed focus on a dead-end street
Light writes the news my silver can't keep
Fixed focus, no chemicals left
Boston bricks hold the latent theft
Sprocket holes grab at the autumn air
No developer bath waiting there
Just pigeon shit and a T-stop glare
History exposed but nobody cares
Fixed focus on a dead-end street
Light writes the news my silver can't keep
Fixed focus, no chemicals left
Boston bricks hold the latent theft
I saw the Sox win eighty-six
Caught the parade on a cracked lens mix
Now I'm a paperweight, taxed and priced
Fixed focus, never compromised
Brass body dents where the sidewalk ends
Last roll wound tight by trembling hands
Frame counter stuck on thirty-six
Time develops what the light fixes
Fixed focus on a dead-end street
Light writes the news my silver can't keep
Fixed focus, no chemicals left
Boston bricks hold the latent theft
Fixed focus, the negative's peace
Order up, the exposure's complete
Shutter falls. Develops, stark and raw.
Fixed focus leaves its mark.
