Track Insight / Lyrics
Greyhound sighs at dawn stop
Camera clicks the parking lot
Salt air rusts the metal sign
Bookstore door falls right in line
Rain taps rhythm on the glass
Watch the headlights splash and pass
Tabby sleeps on stacked up crates
Waits out the weather, waits out fate
Paperback paws on concrete floor
Highway roars right past the door
Paperback paws, safe and warm
Shelter found in a paper storm
Flash cube pops a dusty spine
Time stands still in aisle nine
Owner smiles, don't ask my name
Just lets me wait out the rain
Diesel shakes the window pane
Cat stretches out, ignores the strain
Purrs a low and rumbling song
Where the overpass belongs
Paperback paws on concrete floor
Highway roars right past the door
Paperback paws, safe and warm
Shelter found in a paper storm
Shutter winds, I load the roll
Frame the cat where the cheap books go
Focus pulls on whisker tips
Highway hum sings harmony
Paperback paws on concrete floor
Highway roars right past the door
Paperback paws, safe and warm
Shelter found in a paper storm
Sunset bleeds through wire mesh
Paint the fur in gold and flesh
Bus engine coughs, it's time to ride
Leave the cat, the books, the tide
Paperback paws on concrete floor
Highway roars right past the door
Paperback paws, safe and warm
Shelter found in a paper storm
Miles roll out, the coast recedes
Film canister holds what the heart needs
Not the road or the open sky
But paws on pages, passing by
Paperback paws on concrete floor
Highway roars right past the door
Paperback paws, safe and warm
Shelter found in a paper storm
Paperback paws, paperback paws
Click the shutter, wind the frame
Paperback paws, stay just the same
