Rusted wheels kiss frozen rails
Oil stains bloom on concrete gray
Lantern light would catch the same
Keeper watches night turn day
Freight car sings a rusty hymn
Beneath the platform cold and deep
No storm above no tide within
Just steel that groans while city sleeps
Flaking paint like peeled bark skin
Bolts hold fast through decades' weight
Keeper knows the corrosion's grin
Salt eats iron seals its fate
Freight car sings a rusty hymn
Beneath the platform cold and deep
No storm above no tide within
Just steel that groans while city sleeps
Wurlitzer wobbles in the draft
Chorus guitar warps thick and warm
Keeper nods at familiar craft
Weathered wood survives the storm
Three AM the hour turns
No gulls cry no foghorn sounds
Just vibration that returns
Through bedrock where the humming bounds
Hofner bass thumps round and low
Plate reverb swells like swell tide
Keeper feels the undertow
Memory rising deep inside
Freight car sings a rusty hymn
Beneath the platform cold and deep
No storm above no tide within
Just steel that groans while city sleeps
Dawn cracks gray through ventilation grates
Humming fades as brakes release
Keeper logs what time creates
Another night finds broken peace
Freight car sings a rusty hymn
Beneath the platform cold and deep
No storm above no tide within
Just steel that groans while city sleeps
Freight car sings a rusty hymn
Steel remembers what the city keeps
Hum fades slow
Keeper knows