Track Insight / Lyrics
I trimmed the wick at three a.m.
The fresnel lens caught wind again
Salt crust on the iron stair
No ship would find safe harbor there
Blue flame bites the cold air clean
Nitrous dawn on steel unseen
Attic glass catches first gold
Grease and light break night's old hold
Wrench turns on the fuel rail tight
Injection sings through morning light
Piston rings seat deep and true
Power builds in morning dew
Blue flame bites the cold air clean
Nitrous dawn on steel unseen
Attic glass catches first gold
Grease and light break night's old hold
Kerosene and high-octane
Two worlds burn in window pane
Keeper watches, mechanic waits
Dawn decides the morning fates
Fog horn blows through exhaust pipe
Salt meets grease in strange new stripe
Lamp and engine, different spark
Both cut through the biting dark
Thirty years I watched the beam
Now I watch a different stream
Fuel line pulses, steady, strong
Like a tide that runs too long
Blue flame bites the cold air clean
Nitrous dawn on steel unseen
Attic glass catches first gold
Grease and light break night's old hold
Torque wrench clicks at final spec
Engine wakes with thundered check
Sunlight spreads across the floor
Keeper nods toward the door
Blue flame bites the cold air clean
Nitrous dawn on steel unseen
Attic glass catches first gold
Grease and light break night's old hold
Two flames merge in morning air
Keeper, mechanic, both are there
Light keeps burning, engine runs
Morning comes and morning comes
