Track Insight / Lyrics
Rain taps the chrome on your wristwatch face
Steam curls from coffee in this quiet place
Hammers rest silent on velvet red
Dreams of brass teeth inside your head
Sign flickers through the greasy glass
Each step counted as the night cars pass
Soles on pavement keep a steady beat
Rhythm the city makes on every street
Midnight gears turn in the diner light
Counting footsteps through the long night
Spring winds tight in a brass heart
Time keeps ticking, doing its part
Midnight gears, midnight gears
Master sleeps upstairs in flannel deep
While you guard the secrets that tickers keep
Oil stains fingers like taxi receipts
Midnight wisdom in these quiet streets
Midnight gears turn in the diner light
Counting footsteps through the long night
Spring winds tight in a brass heart
Time keeps ticking, doing its part
Midnight gears, midnight gears
Hour hand drags but the minutes fly
Dawn brings customers, the rush, the cry
But here at three the world is yours alone
A kingdom built on zinc and chrome and bone
Footsteps fade as first light hits the floor
Apprentice becomes master, learns the lore
Each gear finds its place in the grand design
Precision born in these hours of thine
Keys turn locks as the diner opens wide
Clockmaker's pride walks out with stride
You wipe the counter, check the time once more
Another shift done at the midnight store
Midnight gears turn in the morning light
Counted footsteps through the longest night
Spring winds tight in a brass heart
Time kept ticking, did its part
Midnight gears, midnight gears
Three AM knows what the noon forgets
Midnight gears, midnight gears
