Track Insight / Lyrics
Copper gears catch fading light
Apprentice fingers trace the rime
Pear branches bend beneath the white
Clockmaker watches, keeping time
[Pre-
Machine oil mingles with cold bark
Each measured tick a heartbeat in the dark
Snow-dusted crown wheel turns so slow
Precision learned from winter's careful flow
Snow falls soft on brass and bone
Winter claims what steel has known
Hands that wind and hands that wait
Measure dusk by spring's late date
Tempered screws turn smooth and slow
Frost etches feathers on the case
Breath clouds rise where lamplights glow
Patience carved in copper face
[Pre-
Machine oil mingles with cold bark
Each measured tick a heartbeat in the dark
Snow-dusted crown wheel turns so slow
Precision learned from winter's careful flow
Snow falls soft on brass and bone
Winter claims what steel has known
Hands that wind and hands that wait
Measure dusk by spring's late date
Master voice cuts through the hush
"Listen close — the escapement sings"
Ice crystals form on silver bush
Accuracy taught by frozen things
Snow falls soft on brass and bone
Winter claims what steel has known
Hands that wind and hands that wait
Measure dusk by spring's late date
Tweezers lift a speck of dust
From jewelled pivot, ruby red
Orchard silence, iron trust
Words unspoken, paths they tread
Snow falls soft on brass and bone
Winter claims what steel has known
Hands that wind and hands that wait
Measure dusk by spring's late date
Final winding, key turns home
Mainspring sings its coiled song
Footprints mark the path they roam
Two shadows where they both belong
Snow falls soft on brass and bone
Winter claims what steel has known
Hands that wind and hands that wait
Measure dusk by spring's late date
Spring will come to copper plate
Last tick hangs in frosted air
Choir breath released in prayer