Track Insight / Lyrics
Dust settles on the velvet seats
Pale wings fold near cracked plaster
Trumpet sighs through cigarette haze
Moth keeps vigil, quiet master
Pale wings over Chicago nights
Watching jazz in basement lights
Hymns half-remembered, breath and bone
This basement is our second home
Wurlitzer wobbles, keys worn thin
Hofner bass walks deep within
Altos hum where smoke curls high
Moth observes with compound eye
Pale wings over Chicago nights
Watching jazz in basement lights
Hymns half-remembered, breath and bone
This basement is our second home
Cork and needle, gin and time
Pale wings catch the rhythm's climb
Choir memories in minor thirds
Silent witness, no spoken words
Pale wings over Chicago nights
Watching jazz in basement lights
Hymns half-remembered, breath and bone
This basement is our second home
Dawn creeps down the basement stair
Moth departs on morning air
Velvet seats hold silence still
Pale wings bend to Chicago's will
Pale wings over Chicago nights
Watching jazz in basement lights
Hymns half-remembered, breath and bone
This basement is our second home
Pale wings... Chicago... home
Pale wings fold, the night says amen