Track Insight / Lyrics
You count the rivets on the flank
Quercus alba shades the boards
Thunder rolls through steel and rank
Roots drink deep the storm's rewards
Lightning writes in nitrogen
You trace the rust bloom, Fe2
O3
Moss establishes on the seam
Porch boards swell with humidity
Beetles bore in larval dream
Mycorrhizae stitch the dark
Iron watches, wood endures
Three-four time on corrugated skin
No shelter built from perfect cures
The storm gets in, the storm gets in
You bloom where oxide begins
You note the way the droplets cling
To trichomes on the vine's new growth
Freight car hums a low rumbling
Timber drinks the sky's cold oath
Stomata open, drink their fill
Iron watches, wood endures
Three-four time on corrugated skin
No shelter built from perfect cures
The storm gets in, the storm gets in
You bloom where oxide begins
Nitrogen fixed by lightning's hand
Falls where rust and cellulose meet
No border held by metal band
The porch, the car, the root, the heat
All one wet and breathing thing
You smell petrichor on hot steel
Azotobacter feast on air
Porch joists groan, the car's ideal
Anchor in the dripping square
Spores settle on the oxidized
You watch the water sheet and pool
Around the wheels, the post, the base
No separation, just the rule
Of capillary embrace
The storm distributes what it brings
Iron watches, wood endures
Three-four time on corrugated skin
No shelter built from perfect cures
The storm gets in, the storm gets in
You bloom where oxide begins
You bloom where oxide begins
Root and rivet, same dark drink
Morning light on rusted rim
