Track Insight / Lyrics
I'm a gold case in a stone gut
Lid snapped tight like a diner shut
Gears grind slow like short-order eggs
Frozen stiff as wooden legs
Gold don't shine in a stone throat
Chain don't rattle, chain don't float
Seventy-eight beats, slow and mean
Coldest kitchen I ever seen
Priest left offerings, dust and bone
Altar's just a grill of stone
Incense smells like burnt coffee grounds
Same stench in my downtown rounds
Gold don't shine in a stone throat
Chain don't rattle, chain don't float
Seventy-eight beats, slow and mean
Coldest kitchen I ever seen
Stairs go down like a freezer door
Each step creaks on a frozen floor
Lint in my works, grit in my teeth
Thirty years on the graveyard beat
Midnight rush, no tickets called
Orders shouted, never stalled
Regulars don't tip the dead
Check's been paid in dust and lead
Found the chamber, found the throne
King of dust and calcite bone
Scepter's a stalactite shard
Crown's a drip from the ceiling hard
Gold don't shine in a stone throat
Chain don't rattle, chain don't float
Seventy-eight beats, slow and mean
Coldest kitchen I ever seen
Set my hands to the high noon mark
Alarm don't ring, don't make a spark
Left my chain on the altar stone
Cook's done feeding the unknown
Gold don't shine in a stone throat
Chain don't rattle, chain don't float
Seventy-eight beats, slow and mean
Coldest kitchen I ever seen
Time's up, boss, I'm clocking out
Wind me slow when the thaw comes round
Gold case cold on the frozen ground