Track Insight / Lyrics
You dragged it home through salt and spray
The chain bit deep on gravel gray
No light to guide the heavy weight
Just workshop doors that squeak and wait
The winch still screams in rusted throat
Iron anchor in the grass
Rust eats slow where summers pass
You know the tide won't come this far
But still you watch the rising bar
Weeds wrap the flukes in green embrace
Time paints the shank with orange grace
The lamp room's dark, the lens is cold
Your keeper's log stays left untold
Salt crust flakes from every bolt
Neon pulses through the fence at night
Synth waves hum in electric light
But you don't dance, you don't pretend
Just sharpen hooks and wait the end
The beat don't move your weathered skin
Iron anchor in the grass
Rust eats slow where summers pass
You know the tide won't come this far
But still you watch the rising bar
Storm glass falls, the mercury drops
Pressure builds but nothing stops
The sea remembers what you owe
Even anchored, deep below
Morning breaks on corrosion bloom
Chain links sink in loamy gloom
You wipe your hands on denim thighs
No gulls cry out, no horizon lies
The tide is grass. The sea is time.
Iron anchor in the grass
Rust eats slow where summers pass
You know the tide won't come this far
But still you watch the rising bar
Iron anchor, home at last
Heavy peace in iron cast
The light stays dark. The anchor holds.
Iron roots in overgrown.
