Track Insight / Lyrics
Cold bus seat behind my eyes
Camera clicks in compromised light
Got off at the edge of town
Where the factory walls fall down
Flashlight cuts the kitchen steam
Watchman walks his same old beat
Silver needle, white hot dream
Caught inside the kettle beam
Steel pot sings a low hymn
Steam rises on a brass rim
Badge glints soft on navy wool
Night is heavy, night is full
Flashlight cuts the kitchen steam
Watchman walks his same old beat
Silver needle, white hot dream
Caught inside the kettle beam
Frame the light through dirty glass
Watch the heavy seconds pass
Euphoria and fatigue mix
In the glow of twenty-six
Beam swings wide, misses my shoe
He don't see me, I see him too
Just a kid with a stolen eye
Watching steam kiss the dirty sky
Shutter snaps the quiet theft
Only proof that I was left
Kettle screams, the spell is broke
Watchman exhales cigarette smoke
Fades back out to rain slick street
Boots retreating, slow and sweet
Flashlight cuts the kitchen steam
Watchman walks his same old beat
Silver needle, white hot dream
Caught inside the kettle beam
Morning finds the film developed
Kitchen ghost in silver resolved
I pack the bag, I catch the bus
Chasing down the morning hush
Flashlight cuts the kitchen steam
Watchman walks his same old beat
Silver needle, white hot dream
Caught inside the kettle beam
Kettle beam on fading night
Click the shutter, hold the light