Track Insight / Lyrics
Urban twilight paints the sidewalk gray
Pebbles gather secrets as the day fades away
A hollow echo of footfalls fades in the night
As I stand, a custodian of Boston's lonely light
On streets of brick and mortar worn
Amidst reflections and the neon's scorn
A ghostly form begins to roam
The forgotten stray, a hound of stone
With eyes that gleam like headlamps keen
He sculpts the darkness, wild and clean
Each breath a sigh, each step a prayer
To the moon above, his solitary care
Boston's midnight, his bittersweet abode
Where shadows dance and stories unfold
He wanders free, an urban myth made real
A lost hound's lament, his joyful – fleeting – appeal
His pads, a ribbon on the rain-slicked ground
Through alleys dark, where tales have sound
He listens close, to whispers yet untold
The city's heart, where legends young and old
With eyes that gleam like headlamps keen
He sculpts the darkness, wild and clean
Each breath a sigh, each step a prayer
To the moon above, his solitary care
Boston's midnight, his bittersweet abode
Where shadows dance and stories unfold
He wanders free, an urban myth made real
A lost hound's lament, his joyful – fleeting – appeal
In every breath, a tale unspun
Of love and loss, of life begun
One moment's warmth, the next a chill
The city's kindness, the city's will
Boston's midnight, his bittersweet abode
Where shadows dance and stories unfold
He wanders free, an urban myth made real
A lost hound's lament, his joyful – fleeting – appeal
And so the moon ascends the sky
The pavement cools, morning whispers by
The hound's song, a whispered refrain
Echoes on, within this city's train