Track Insight / Lyrics
Meter clicks down George Street, dusk turns blue
Ferry horn cuts through the avenue
Nineteen eighty-two ink stains my thumb
Harbor Bridge steel hums a low-strung drum
Circular Quay lights paint water gold
Opera sails fold stories left untold
Your footsteps trace the yellow line east
Past the Rocks where sandstone lions feast
Map counts feet where water meets the sky
Each crease a block where years slip by
Taxi waits while harbor breathes out cold
Sydney writes its numbers on the old
Rain slicks the dash, wipers beat a sway
Fare drops heavy on the vinyl tray
Map unfurls again, edges torn and thin
Counting steps from where you've never been
Map counts feet where water meets the sky
Each crease a block where years slip by
Taxi waits while harbor breathes out cold
Sydney writes its numbers on the old
Purple dusk swallows Circular Quay whole
Streetlamps bloom like jellyfish in a bowl
Paper map remembers every shoe
Leather soles on pavement, missing you
Yellow cab idles, engine coughs a tune
Harbor wind carries a late afternoon
Fold the map slow, corner matches corner
Time holds its breath for a foreign mourner
Forty years of fares stack in the seat
Map still counts the same repetitive beat
Footsteps fade where water meets the land
Steering wheel warm beneath my hand
Map counts feet where water meets the sky
Each crease a block where years slip by
Taxi waits while harbor breathes out cold
Sydney writes its numbers on the old
Paper remembers every step you took
Harbor keeps the count in its salt hook
Meter silent, map folded in the glove
Harbor lights wink from the hill above