Track Insight / Lyrics
My lenses root like Quercus deep
In Pripyat soil where shadows sleep
The Geiger ticks a metronome
While silver drinks the isotope home
Mist clings to Betula bark
Each frame a seed in growing dark
The bridge holds strontium in its steel
Latent images wait to heal
Half-life exposure, slow develop
Time holds its breath while isotopes revolve
Half-life exposure, patient chemical
Roots drink the light invisible
Focal length measures decay rate
Aperture opens to Cesium's fate
Shutter speed matches half-life span
Capturing what eyes cannot scan
Moss grows on Baikonur glass
Each exposure lets the past pass
The viewfinder shows what roots know
Silver remembers the gamma glow
Half-life exposure, slow develop
Time holds its breath while isotopes revolve
Half-life exposure, patient chemical
Roots drink the light invisible
Developer smells like rain on loam
Fixed in hypo, safe from chrome
Wash cycles match the river's flow
Radionuclides bleed slow
Half-life exposure, slow develop
Time holds its breath while isotopes revolve
Half-life exposure, patient chemical
Roots drink the light invisible
Enlarger projects Chernobyl sky
On paper white as birch bark dry
Dodging burns where hot particles fell
Printing shadows no eye can tell
Half-life exposure, slow develop
Time holds its breath while isotopes revolve
Half-life exposure, patient chemical
Roots drink the light invisible
Archive holds the Pine negatives
Sealed in lead, long half-lives
Each frame a root system complete
Where light and isotope meet
Half-life exposure, slow develop
Time holds its breath while isotopes revolve
Half-life exposure, patient chemical
Roots drink the light invisible
Silver remembers what eyes let dissolve
Latent images the Geiger solve
Shutter closes on Cesium ground
Latent image, finally found