Taxi sits on cracked concrete
Meter dead since quarter three
Rain writes letters on the street
Fare gone cold as memory
Steel sings soft on oiled cloth
Monsters sleep but hunters watch
Platform empty platform wide
Dawn comes sharp on silver tide
He wipes the blade down slow and clean
Subway lights turn pale to green
No medal waits no crowd to cheer
Just steel and sweat and disappearing fear
Silver at dawn silver at dawn
Cabbie knows the graveyard shift
Reads the road like holy writ
Sees the things that drift and lift
When the city loses it
Steel sings soft on oiled cloth
Monsters sleep but hunters watch
Platform empty platform wide
Dawn comes sharp on silver tide
He wipes the blade down slow and clean
Subway lights turn pale to green
No medal waits no crowd to cheer
Just steel and sweat and disappearing fear
Silver at dawn silver at dawn
Oil rag stained with black and red
Stories etched in metal grain
Every notch a bargain made
Every shine a prayer for rain
He wipes the blade down slow and clean
Subway lights turn pale to green
No medal waits no crowd to cheer
Just steel and sweat and disappearing fear
Silver at dawn silver at dawn
Turnstiles click but nobody rides
Fluorescent buzz dies track by track
He don't hide and he don't brag
Just keeps the edge for coming back
He wipes the blade down slow and clean
Subway lights turn pale to green
No medal waits no crowd to cheer
Just steel and sweat and disappearing fear
Silver at dawn silver at dawn
First pink bleeds through grated glass
City wakes to coffee steam
He sheathes the blade lets out a breath
Another night another dream
He wipes the blade down slow and clean
Subway lights turn pale to green
No medal waits no crowd to cheer
Just steel and sweat and disappearing fear
Silver at dawn silver at dawn
Silver at dawn
Meter starts the morning run
Wheels turn east toward rising sun
