Track Insight / Lyrics
Ribbon frayed on your steel throat
Carriage slides on a rusted track
Paper ghost in the first light
Ferry schedule torn at the back
No fingers dance on your crown
No bell rings the line done
Just gulls screaming over brown water
And the rising of the sun
Last key strikes the empty page
Dawn writes itself in gray
Last key strikes the empty page
No words left to say
Gray light, gray water
Gray keys, no daughter
No son, no lover
Just the machine recover
Last key strikes
Dawn breaks
Shift ends at the Blue Spoon
Eggs flipped on a chipped plate
Regulars know my tune
Coffee strong, jokes first-rate
But you sit where the ramp ends
Salt rust on your iron frame
Typewriter, my old friend
Watching the dock stay the same
Last key strikes the empty page
Dawn writes itself in gray
Last key strikes the empty page
No words left to say
Ribbon red on the spool turns
Ink bleeds where the paper feeds
Morning tide churns and returns
Dock stays blank, no names, no deeds
You hold the silence like a tray
Heavy, hot, ready to serve
No customers coming today
Just the gulls and the nerve
I wipe the counter, lock the door
Walk the planks where you keep watch
Your keys don't clatter anymore
But the dawn still wants to catch
One clean sentence, one true line
Before the ferry cuts the mist
You're the only witness, machine
To a day that won't be missed
Coffee gone cold in my thermos
Dawn sharp on the water's skin
You're the last script, the last cosmos
Where the night shift ends, begins
No carriage return for the tide
No margin for the gulls' cry
Just you and me, side by side
Under a pale, indifferent sky
Last key strikes the empty page
Dawn writes itself in gold
Last key strikes the empty page
A story never told
Last key strikes the empty page
Dawn writes itself in gold
Last key strikes the empty page
A story never told
Last key strikes Gold dawn breaks
Last key strikes
Gold dawn breaks
Coffee steam, grill gone cold
You watch the water write Last key strikes
Dawn writes
