Track Insight / Lyrics
The porch wood drinks the midnight rain
A carved grin wars with wind again
Salt air cuts the candle's breath
Old glass guards a borrowed death
Waves hammer cliffs where gulls once cried
No beam sweeps the turning tide
Just pumpkin light on weathered boards
While fog rolls thick from offshore hordes
The jack-o'-lantern keeps its watch
Through witching hours on porch and dock
No lighthouse lens could burn so bright
This Halloween commands the night
Two strangers pause beneath the eaves
One coughs, one adjusts her sleeves
The flame jumps when the gust comes hard
They share a look across the yard
The jack-o'-lantern keeps its watch
Through witching hours on porch and dock
No lighthouse lens could burn so bright
This Halloween commands the night
The keeper wakes in upstairs room
Dreams of sweep and lens and gloom
His hands still know the wick's clean trim
But porch light burns on ghost and whim
The sea cannot claim this hymn
Rain etches paths on orange rind
The carved teeth grin, by storm defined
No shipwreck screams, no bell buoy's toll
Just quiet magic, soul to soul
Dawn will steal the pumpkin's crown
But midnight made this porch holy ground
The keeper nods, his coffee steams
Halloween lives in borrowed dreams
The jack-o'-lantern keeps its watch
Through witching hours on porch and dock
No lighthouse lens could burn so bright
This Halloween commands the night
One flame defies the crushing dark
Halloween leaves its glowing mark
Porch light holds the morning back
One more night in orange and black
