Track Insight / Lyrics
Faded echoes of a distant hum
Pleas of passersby
A lonely dawn chorus, detached
From the world now still
Greet the ferry's long, dark arm
A sentinel of concrete and steel
At the river's skeletal grasp
Where the city's pulse will peel
But for now, only motes remain
Tiny bellwethers of the past
Drifting, settling in the golden reign
As dawn's light seeps through the cast
In the pre-dawn's gritty gray
Tattered letters furl and unfurl
Miles of words that, by dawn's ray
Conceal their secrets, worn and curled
But for now, only motes remain
Tiny bellwethers of the past
Drifting, settling in the golden reign
As dawn's light seeps through the cast
Leaning on a rail, weary eyes
Scan the waters, once a busy span
Now a mirror of a slumbering guise
Where dreams and fate converge, a Van Gogh canvass
But for now, only motes remain
Tiny bellwethers of the past
Drifting, settling in the golden reign
As dawn's light seeps through the cast
Tomorrow's crowds, the rush and din
Will walk the same worn wooden deck
Their lives a maze of joy and sin
Their footfalls echoing, a spectral wreck
But here, at dawn's awakening cry
Only the motes bear witness true
To moments lived, to love now lying
In the hidden wake of me and you
But for now, only motes remain
Tiny bellwethers of the past
Drifting, settling in the golden reign
As dawn's light seeps through the cast
But for now, only motes remain
Tiny bellwethers of the past
Drifting, settling in the golden reign
As dawn's light seeps through the cast
Let the city stir, let time reclaim
The empty dock, the sleepy river bend
For in the motes, a tale's inlaid
Of lives and loves that, for now, transcend.
