Track Insight / Lyrics
You watch the storm from weathered boards
Quercus leaves write verses on the floor
Ferrum oxide blooms on steel ribs
Petrichor rises where the water drips
You trace the rivets like leaf veins
Taxonomy of rust and rain
Salix weeps beside the tracks
Sorbus berries stain the axe
Iron sentinel stands guard tonight
Wooden porch breathes soft in lightning light
No arboretum holds such grace
As rust and timber sharing space
You are the witness, rooted, still
While thunder writes on windowsill
You count the seconds between flash and sound
Phloem and xylem in the iron bound
Corten steel develops patina skin
Like bark that seasons from within
Iron sentinel stands guard tonight
Wooden porch breathes soft in lightning light
No arboretum holds such grace
As rust and timber sharing space
You are the witness, rooted, still
While thunder writes on windowsill
No herbarium sheet could catalog
This dialogue of beam and log
The storm conducts a fugue in three
You listen with taxonomy
You feel the vibration in the floor
Seismic waves through cellar door
The freight car shudders, heavy, deep
A promise that the earth will keep
You watch the dawn bleed through the east
Chlorophyll wakes in the beast
The porch boards warm, the storm retreats
Iron and wood in quiet feats
Iron sentinel stands guard tonight
Wooden porch breathes soft in lightning light
No arboretum holds such grace
As rust and timber sharing space
You are the witness, rooted, still
While thunder writes on windowsill
Iron sentinel, rooted, still
Thunder writes on windowsill
