Track Insight / Lyrics
Cabbies know the street's true code
Every fare a heavy load
Meter runs but wisdom's free
Night teaches what day can't see
Iron summer, iron dusk
Radio waves through carbon rust
Voice to voice on steel stair landing
Static binds what distance stranded
Dial glows green in dim light
Logs the ships that pass at night
Call signs drift on humid breeze
Morse code talks in dots and daze
Iron summer, iron dusk
Radio waves through carbon rust
Voice to voice on steel stair landing
Static binds what distance stranded
Know a man by how he tips
Know a storm by pressure dips
Fire escape holds summer heat
Concrete holds the day's defeat
Iron summer, iron dusk
Radio waves through carbon rust
Voice to voice on steel stair landing
Static binds what distance stranded
Logbook pages yellowed thin
Years of voices written in
CQ CQ this is my call
Waiting for the night to fall
Banjo rolls and cello weeps
Promises the night still keeps
No fare collected, no log signed
Just two souls on borrowed time
Taxi meter dark and cold
Radio dial growing old
Iron stairs and summer sky
Watch the night go drifting by
Iron summer, iron dusk
Radio waves through carbon rust
Voice to voice on steel stair landing
Static binds what distance stranded
Iron summer, iron dusk
Radio waves through carbon rust
Voice to voice on steel stair landing
Static binds what distance stranded
Static fades on copper wire
Dawn breaks on rusted iron