Track Insight / Lyrics
Morning fog lifts off the water
Cargo doors groan slow and heavy
Salt eats deep where welds once held her
I've hauled wool and wheat and levy
Sun bleeds orange on the crane
Wharf rats scatter from the rain
Engine coughs but starts again
Same old route, same old pain
Iron tide rolls in at dusk
Harbor breathes in rust and dust
Seen ten thousand fares like us
Time don't wait for steel or trust
Deck hands laugh with cigarettes
Throwing crates of frozen lamb
I remember all their bets
Who'd last longest, who'd be damned
Sun bleeds orange on the crane
Wharf rats scatter from the rain
Engine coughs but starts again
Same old route, same old pain
Iron tide rolls in at dusk
Harbor breathes in rust and dust
Seen ten thousand fares like us
Time don't wait for steel or trust
Container ships block out the sky
Stacked like boxes, red and blue
I was king once, watched time fly
Now I'm rusting, fading through
Storm rolls in from Botany Bay
Lightning writes on steel and spray
No passenger asks me to stay
Just the wind and fading day
Iron tide rolls in at dusk
Harbor breathes in rust and dust
Seen ten thousand fares like us
Time don't wait for steel or trust
Young crane operator waves
Coffee steam against the cold
She don't know the loads I've saved
Stories that I've never told
Iron tide rolls in at dusk
Harbor breathes in rust and dust
Seen ten thousand fares like us
Time don't wait for steel or trust
Iron tide rolls in at dusk
Slide guitar fades on the quay
Last fare paid, I rest my frame