Track Insight / Lyrics
Salt in my fingers from thirty years at sea
Now I count headlights where the gulls used to be
Fluorescent hum replaces the foghorn's low moan
This tile deck's colder than any cliff stone
The express roars past like a winter gale
Steel teeth biting the dark rail
I adjust the lens on the token booth light
Keep the beam steady through the night
Keeper of the light below
Where the tunnels breathe, cold winds blow
No ships to save from crashing waves
Just riders drifting home the train gave
Light below, steady, slow
Burning where the sunlight won't go
Brass polish cloth in my coat pocket deep
Habits the ocean taught this keeper to keep
Rat scuttles past where the kelp used to sway
Third rail humming like a buoy in the bay
The express roars past like a winter gale
Steel teeth biting the dark rail
I adjust the lens on the token booth light
Keep the beam steady through the night
Keeper of the light below
Where the tunnels breathe, cold winds blow
No ships to save from crashing waves
Just riders drifting home the train gave
Light below, steady, slow
Burning where the sunlight won't go
Coffee thermos steams like a signal lamp's glow
Newspaper headlines drift like seaweed, slow
Young couple argues, then kisses goodbye
Tide pulls them under the city sky
Storms I've weathered, capes I've rounded
Never found a dark so deeply grounded
But this platform's my lantern room now
Same duty, same watch, same vow
Keeper of the light below
Where the tunnels breathe, cold winds blow
No ships to save from crashing waves
Just riders drifting home the train gave
Light below, steady, slow
Burning where the sunlight won't go
Dawn paints the entrance with pale gray wash
Rush hour rising with a thunderous hush
I'll trim the wick when the platform clears
Another night kept, another year
Keeper of the light below
Where the tunnels breathe, cold winds blow
No ships to save from crashing waves
Just riders drifting home the train gave
Light below, steady, slow
Burning where the sunlight won't go
Light below... burning low...
Keeper stays... when the trains don't go...
