Rusted tracks freeze under boots
Peeling paint like old receipts
You map the sun in lead and root
Cutting glass on splintered seats
Solder smells like winter rain
Flux burns clean on copper vein
Each joint a prayer you explain
Before the dawn brings work again
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
You solder dawn in broken steel
Light breaks where the paint peels
Hold the line steady now
Light bends slow through cobalt blue
Wait for prism cutting through
Break the dark in two
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
Cracked pane holds the 5:15 Timetable faded incomplete
You catch the red that won't concede
Holding light in copper sleeve
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
You solder dawn in broken steel
Light breaks where the paint peels
No fare to call no meter run
Just kiln-fired hymns you've just begun
The depot holds what time undone
Until the rising of the sun
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
You solder dawn in broken steel
Light breaks where the paint peels
Light breaks where the paint peels
Color floods the rusted wheels
Light breaks... where paint peels...
