Track Insight / Lyrics
Leather workbench worn smooth
Denim dusk-dappled, blue, deep
Welder's hands don't falter
Beading sweat for every bolt to set
Sweltering, greasy, awash with grime
Submersed in the blue-collar grind
Harbor winds howl like a restless sea
Bellowing through the rusting quay
I'm a storm of sparks and sweat and grit
Pierlithe's my home, nail by nail, I fit
I'm a beacon in the blue-lit night
Alone on the pier, a solitary light
Every rivet's my own burning fire
Engine oil leaves black fingerprints
Windblown salt stings my chapped cheeks, rips
Between my gloves and the cold steel
Welder's calluses form a permanent seal
In the shed-blue haze, alone I face
Alone I fight against the screaming wind and rain
Harbor winds howl like a restless sea
Bellowing through the rusting quay
I'm a storm of sparks and sweat and grit
Pierlithe's my home, nail by nail, I fit
I'm a beacon in the blue-lit night
Alone on the pier, a solitary light
Every rivet's my own burning fire
Through the roar of the metal frenzy
When the sparks rain down like a style of poetry
My own heartbeat keeps pace with the clang and hiss
In this world of our making, pierlithe, I persist
I'm a lighthouse on the shadowless shore
A solitary flame in a world of rust and roar
Every rivet's my own burning fire
Melting steel beneath my palms
Flashing sparks on flickering palms
Pierlithe, singed hair, steel dowel
Fade to silence, end of day, our tale.
