Track Insight / Lyrics
I hang where midnight learns to wait
A tired shelter, rust and crate
I guard the dark with yellow light
And blink the hour into sight
I hang above the cracked highway
A blue-white circle keeping late
A black raincoat waits below
One lonely shadow moving slow
Flicker, flicker, please hold the line
I keep one little doorway bright
The lost can read my careful sign
And step out of the waiting night
I count each engine rolling past
I mark each headlight turn to pass
The midnight bus pulls up at last
One tap to open doors so fast
I swing beneath the elmwood beam
The moths arrive with silver wings
I mark the footsteps cross the stream
The ones the sidewalk always brings
Flicker, flicker, please hold the line
I keep one little doorway bright
The lost can read my careful sign
And step out of the waiting night
No one calls me by a name
I burn beside the waiting game
A thousand footsteps whisper, stay
I hold my tired fluorescent flame
I watch the rain tap copper down
I blur the town into pearl and mist
The first gray edge begins to glow
And dawn sneaks up my metal wrist
Flicker, flicker, hold the line
I keep one little doorway bright
The lost can read my careful sign
And step out of the waiting night
No one scolds me when I cry
I burn till morning turns me round
Then flash the color through the town
And light the sidewalk off the ground
The engine fades around the bend
My circle keeps the empty seat
Then sunlight slowly warms my friend
I dim, but dawn wakes up the street
