Track Insight / Lyrics
Case pops open on cold concrete
Rosin dust coats calloused fingertips
Motel sign flickers buzzing sweet
Sodium vapor paints the parking strips
Bow hair tightens, horsehair sings
Bridge adjusts on maple belly curve
Cruiser idles, engine purrs and rings
Officer checks his watch, preserves the nerve
She plays the hymns her alto knew
Half-remembered, breath by breath
Each note a prayer the night pulls through
Defiance dressed in midnight death
Cigarette butts swim in oil rainbow
Rain slicks the hood of parked sedan
She reads the license plates below
Kansas, Maine, a rental plan
She plays the hymns her alto knew
Half-remembered, breath by breath
Each note a prayer the night pulls through
Defiance dressed in midnight death
Moth-eaten vinyl, peeling paint
Saxophone bleeds from room twelve
Her fingers trace what hands can't feign
