Salt wood drinks the vacuum cold
Copper nails hold fast and old
No tide here to turn the bow
Just silent stars and nothing now
Hangar light on water black
Rowboat throws the glow right back
Oak ribs drink the sodium glow
Orbit keeps the dark below
Pressure hull sings lullaby
Weld seams breathe but never lie
Kerosene would choke this air
Electric lamp burns clean and square
Hangar light on water black
Rowboat throws the glow right back
Oak ribs drink the sodium glow
Orbit keeps the dark below
Thirty years I trimmed the wick
Fog horn low and candle thick
Now I watch the reflector spin
Docking lights pull me back in
Hangar light on water black
Rowboat throws the glow right back
Oak ribs drink the sodium glow
Orbit keeps the dark below
No rocks to chart no shoal to sound
Just delta-v and burning down
But wood remembers what it was
A tree that drank the rain and buzz
Morning shift will claim the bay
Tow cable takes the skiff away
But reflection holds a moment more
Wood and light and metal shore
Hangar light on water black
Rowboat throws the glow right back
Oak ribs drink the sodium glow
Orbit keeps the dark below
Hangar light on water black
Rowboat throws the glow right back
Spring reverb fades to blue
One last flash from hull to you
Wood drinks light till morning new
