Salt boots dawn breaks cold
Net ropes tales untold
Platform hums low wind song
Lamp swings where tides belong
Lantern underground salt on steel rails
Tide comes in where last train fails
Keep light where platform pales
Lantern underground tell your tales
Kerosene fingers count hours
Fresnel lens cuts through foam
Steel rails sing in drowned towers
Platform waits no one home
Lantern underground salt on steel rails
Tide comes in where last train fails
Keep light where platform pales
Lantern underground tell your tales
Herring flash in tunnel light
Tracks curve like tidal shelf
No gulls cry concrete night
Just hum of something else
Lantern underground salt on steel rails
Tide comes in where last train fails
Keep light where platform pales
Lantern underground tell your tales
Storm glass fell pressure dropped
Bell buoy clangs stairwell deep
Timetables washed journeys stopped
Promises the shadows keep
Two keepers watch waters divide
One scans horizon one reads map
No logbook holds turning tide
Salt and steel in overlapping lap
Net mends slow on bench of stone
Wick trimmed low glass wiped clean
Tunnel sings monotone
Brightest dark ever seen
Lantern underground salt on steel rails
Tide comes in where last train fails
Keep light where platform pales
Lantern underground tell your tales
Lantern underground salt on steel rails
Tide comes in where last train fails
Lantern burns underground
Salt crust on steel rails