Track Insight / Lyrics
Flour dust on wet wool cuffs before dawn
Fog eats the ferry clock at quarter past
Starter bubbles slow in crockery drawn
Salt rusts the chain where crab pots hold fast
Hands know the weight of rye and spelt grain
Breath shapes the dark in rhythm, without sound
Midnight rise on Mission Street
Dough climbs slow where bakers sleep
Golden Gate drinks fog like wine
We shape the dark till morning shine
Yeast wakes slow in steel bowl deep
Bay holds light we knead to keep
Scales tip at six-forty, rye and spelt
Horn blasts low from container ships
Oven breathes its hymn, distinct, felt
Gulls tear gray through salt-worn grips
Peel slides clean, loaves kiss stone floor
Steam writes psalms on iron oven door
Midnight rise on Mission Street
Dough climbs slow where bakers sleep
Golden Gate drinks fog like wine
We shape the dark till morning shine
Yeast wakes slow in steel bowl deep
Bay holds light we knead to keep
Couche cloth holds baguettes in linen rows
Alcatraz beam cuts wet wood planks
Scoring blades sing where crust splits, grows
Ferry wake rocks moored skiffs, blank
Bench flour smells of rain and old rye
Dawn paints the water pale, thin, high
Midnight rise on Mission Street
Dough climbs slow where bakers sleep
Golden Gate drinks fog like wine
We shape the dark till morning shine
Yeast wakes slow in steel bowl deep
Bay holds light we knead to keep
No congregation sings like this
Just yeast and salt and time's slow gift
No stained glass, just flour on skin
The bay holds light we knead within
Harmony rises, no conductor's hand
Salt, water, flour, time — the only band
Crust cracks sharp as choir's first chord
Fog burns off, bay turns steel to blue
Steam rises, prayer without a word
Loaves rest on racks, morning new
Aprons hung, the shift breathes out, done
Sun gilds the pier where night begun
Midnight rise on Mission Street
Dough climbs slow where bakers sleep
Golden Gate drinks fog like wine
We shape the dark till morning shine
Yeast wakes slow in steel bowl deep
Bay holds light we knead to keep
Midnight rise, we breathe, we knead
Midnight rise, the bay receives
Flour on the sill, salt in the air
Midnight rise, we're already there