Track Insight / Lyrics
You settle deep in card catalog rows
Where Dewey decimals mark what no one knows
Your iron flanks kiss cellulose and spore
A silent guest on a forgotten floor
Iron drifts down where the reading lamps fade
Through quartzite dust that the catalogs made
No tide to turn you, no current to pull
Just gravity writing in dust-script full
Quercus rubra leans from a pressed leaf page
Its lignin ghost in a vellum cage
You anchor deep where the microfiche sleep
A ferric root in a knowledge deep
Iron drifts down where the reading lamps fade
Through quartzite dust that the catalogs made
No tide to turn you, no current to pull
Just gravity writing in dust-script full
Solanum seeds wait in acid-free sleeves
While you count centuries the archive weaves
No phototropism guides your slow descent
Just silica patience, element, intent
Iron drifts down where the reading lamps fade
Through quartzite dust that the catalogs made
No tide to turn you, no current to pull
Just gravity writing in dust-script full
The thermohygrograph breathes in graphite ink
Your rust blooms orange on the carbon link
A herbarium specimen, labeled, pressed
You hold the building to the earth's dark breast
Rosa gallica fades in a folio's embrace
You drift slower still in this timed space
No seasons turn in the climate-controlled dark
Just silent weight leaving its iron mark
Iron drifts down where the reading lamps fade
Through quartzite dust that the catalogs made
No tide to turn you, no current to pull
Just gravity writing in dust-script full
Iron drifts down in the archive's deep heart
A botanist's anchor, a gravity art
Felt piano lingers on a root-toned chord
Dust settles quiet on your iron sword
