Track Insight / Lyrics
Sandstone ledge cradles your weight tonight
Posidonia meadows breathe below
Rust blooms like lichen, slow and deliberate
Tide reads your rings in lunar glow
Ferry wake shakes the mudline
Cockatoos scream above the cliff
You drink the harbor's brine
Rooted where the currents shift
Iron root, you do not wander
Iron root, you memorize the floor
Kelp holdfasts knot around your anchor
Sydney dusk locks your heavy door
Iron root, you wait for morning
Iron root, you've learned to stay
Each corrosion writes a new story
In the sediment of the bay
Zostera ribbons wrap your shank in green
Blue groper patrols your shadowed crown
You measure time in mineral accretion
While city lights write neon down
Ferry wake shakes the mudline
Cockatoos scream above the cliff
You drink the harbor's brine
Rooted where the currents shift
Iron root, you do not wander
Iron root, you memorize the floor
Kelp holdfasts knot around your anchor
Sydney dusk locks your heavy door
Iron root, you wait for morning
Iron root, you've learned to stay
Each corrosion writes a new story
In the sediment of the bay
Storm surge tested your embedding once
East coast low pressure, thirty-meter swell
You held the container ship's wild dancing
While sandstone cliffs rang like a bell
Photosynthesis fails at this depth
No chlorophyll in your iron blood
But you transpire rust instead of oxygen
A mineral lung in tidal mud
Barnacle cities rise on your shoulders
Calcareous towers, filter-feeding spires
You are the substrate, the ancient bedrock
Where settling larvae fulfill desires
Iron root, you do not wander
Iron root, you memorize the floor
Kelp holdfasts knot around your anchor
Sydney dusk locks your heavy door
Iron root, you wait for morning
Iron root, you've learned to stay
Each corrosion writes a new story
In the sediment of the bay
Now twilight paints the water mercury
Operational lights blink on the bridge
You taste the city's treated effluent
And the harbor's slow, forgiving ridge
Iron root, you do not wander
Iron root, you memorize the floor
Kelp holdfasts knot around your anchor
Sydney dusk locks your heavy door
Iron root, you wait for morning
Iron root, you've learned to stay
Each corrosion writes a new story
In the sediment of the bay
Iron root, the harbor keeps you
Iron root, the silt records your name
Salt writes your name on steel shoulders
Iron root, you hold the dark
