Track Insight / Lyrics
Rust eats the guardrail bolts at dawn
Fiber glints where gulls have drawn
One eye burns a copper red
Keeps the midnight traffic fed
He scans the coast with glass and wire
No lamp to trim, no oil, no fire
Just code that hums in silicon bone
A solitary king on concrete throne
Tide pulls back the kelp and chain
Data floods the glass and rain
His fingers dance on worn key caps
While fog rolls in from collapsed maps
He scans the coast with glass and wire
No lamp to trim, no oil, no fire
Just code that hums in silicon bone
A solitary king on concrete throne
Old beam once swept the shoals of steel
Now drones obey a digital heel
He tends the net like keeper's log
Each packet caught, each error dogged
Storm hits hard, the cables scream
He stands apart, a ghost in stream
No lantern swings, no bell to toll
Just static hum and total control
Dawn breaks pale on asphalt gray
The overpass still holds his sway
No ships to wreck, no rocks to fear
Only signals crystal clear
He scans the coast with glass and wire
No lamp to trim, no oil, no fire
Just code that hums in silicon bone
A solitary king on concrete throne
Salt wind bites the cable line
His oculars fade, the shift is mine
The watch transfers at break of day
Two keepers share the same salt spray
He scans the coast with glass and wire
No lamp to trim, no oil, no fire
Just code that hums in silicon bone
A solitary king on concrete throne
Two keepers share the same salt spray
Salt wind bites the cable line
