Track Insight / Lyrics
Old man Jenkins wipes the counter down
Grease still popping on the morning crowd
Basement archive keeps a pocket watch
Ticking slow beneath the library clock
Third shift cook with coffee on his breath
Watches time forget what it has left
Pocket watch, pocket watch, holding steady
Pocket watch, pocket watch, always ready
Seconds fall like coffee from the pot
Pocket watch, pocket watch, never stop
Two quiet strangers meet by the stair
One holds a key, the other holds a prayer
No one speaking but the floorboard creaks
Brass hands turning while the radiator leaks
She reads the ledger, he just leans and waits
Both of them prisoners of the same slow fate
Pocket watch, pocket watch, holding steady
Pocket watch, pocket watch, always ready
Seconds fall like coffee from the pot
Pocket watch, pocket watch, never stop
Jenkins flips an egg and taps the bell
Regulars nod but no one breaks the spell
Watch face foggy from a hundred years
Keeps the beat while the ceiling clears
She finds a name that matches his own
He laughs and says the past is just a loan
Pocket watch, pocket watch, holding steady
Pocket watch, pocket watch, always ready
Seconds fall like coffee from the pot
Pocket watch, pocket watch, never stop
Morning comes and Jenkins kills the light
Two strangers leave with something warm and bright
Watch keeps ticking though the room is bare
Brass and grease and a little prayer
Counter wiped and the coffee's gone
Pocket watch keeps the night rolling on
Pocket watch, pocket watch, holding steady
Pocket watch, pocket watch, always ready
Seconds fall like coffee from the pot
Pocket watch, pocket watch, never stop
Pocket watch, pocket watch, holding steady
Pocket watch, pocket watch, always ready
Seconds fall like coffee from the pot
Pocket watch, pocket watch, never stop
Tick tock tick in the basement air
Cold brass face in the fluorescent glare
