Track Insight / Lyrics
I kept the flame on rocky shore
Through forty years of gale and roar
Now leather warms on denim chest
Above the canyon's endless rest
Gold hands turn on sandstone ridge
No tower beam, no storm to bridge
Seconds stretch like tide I know
But no salt wind, just desert glow
Sun strikes the glass at noon today
Shadows stretch the ancient way
I tick in rhythm, slow and deep
While lizards watch the silence sleep
Gold hands turn on sandstone ridge
No tower beam, no storm to bridge
Seconds stretch like tide I know
But no salt wind, just desert glow
The lens once caught the whale-oil flame
Now catches dust without a name
No logbook here, no storm to chart
Just sandstone veins and weathered heart
Gold hands turn on sandstone ridge
No tower beam, no storm to bridge
Seconds stretch like tide I know
But no salt wind, just desert glow
Time moves different on this stone
No wreck to mourn, no sailor's moan
Just grains of sand through fingers fall
I measure nothing, measure all
So let the sun bake brass and chain
I'll count the light through heat and plain
A keeper's duty, rearranged
Where desert winds are never changed
Gold hands turn on sandstone ridge
No tower beam, no storm to bridge
Seconds stretch like tide I know
But no salt wind, just desert glow
Gold hands turn on sandstone ridge
No salt wind, just desert glow
Tick slow, burn slow
Desert light, let it go
