Track Insight / Lyrics
My varnish holds the salt of hands
Maple ribs and spruce top stand
Four steel strings remember bow
Waiting where the headlights glow
Gravel twilight holds me here
Wood and wire, calm and clear
No concert hall, no rosin dust
Just the hush before the trust
Case lies open on the grass
Summer heat has gone to pass
Crickets tune their leg-saw song
While I wait the night along
Gravel twilight holds me here
Wood and wire, calm and clear
No concert hall, no rosin dust
Just the hush before the trust
Boots crunch slow on broken stone
A shadow falls where I have known
Fingers brush my curved neck clean
Calloused tips from working scenes
Gravel twilight holds me here
Wood and wire, calm and clear
No concert hall, no rosin dust
Just the hush before the trust
Bow lifts slow from weathered case
Horsehair kisses steel with grace
First note bleeds to indigo
Like a lantern swinging low
Storm glass falls, the barom'ter drops
Wind shifts west, the pressure stops
But here in wood, a harbor found
Where human touch makes solid sound
Now the porch light cuts the gray
Melody finds its own way
Not for stage or critic's ear
Just for one who brought me here
Gravel twilight holds me here
Wood and wire, calm and clear
No concert hall, no rosin dust
Just the hush before the trust
Last note hangs on cooling air
Keeper's violin stays there
