Track Insight / Lyrics
Old hands know the rhythm of the night
Taxi rests beneath the sodium light
Gravel crunches slow beneath his boots
Gardener tends his silent glass roots
Glass and gravel hold the twilight dear
Tomatoes sleep and show no fear
He walks the rows with lantern in his palm
Calm as weather, steady as the calm
Fare meter dark since sundown came
Night shift ends but he won't play the game
Steam rises warm from heated earth below
While northern winds begin to blow
Glass and gravel hold the twilight dear
Tomatoes sleep and show no fear
He walks the rows with lantern in his palm
Calm as weather, steady as the calm
Cabbage heads like fists in shadowed beds
Peppers dream in green and ruby reds
He checks the vents with calloused thumb and fore
Knows exactly what the night has in store
Radio plays static through the cold
Stories of the city left untold
But here the air tastes clean and sharp and true
Only gravel, glass, and morning dew
Glass and gravel hold the twilight dear
Tomatoes sleep and show no fear
He walks the rows with lantern in his palm
Calm as weather, steady as the calm
Dashboard clock ticks past the midnight hour
Greenhouse stands like some great glass tower
He waters slow with copper can in hand
Knows the rhythm of this patch of land
Glass and gravel hold the twilight dear
Tomatoes sleep and show no fear
He walks the rows with lantern in his palm
Calm as weather, steady as the calm
First pale fingers creep across the sky
Night watch ends as morning draws nigh
Engine turns with cough and rattled breath
Another mile until his final rest
Glass and gravel hold the twilight dear
Tomatoes sleep and show no fear
He walks the rows with lantern in his palm
Calm as weather, steady as the calm
Glass and gravel, gravel and glass
Watching seasons slowly pass
Headlights sweep the driveway one last time
Green glass holds the dawn in silent rhyme