I've carried workers lovers thieves
Through fog so thick the water grieves
The meter ticks on dashboard steel
Each fare a story raw and real
The bridge breathes rust in morning light
Geiger clicks count each passing night
My hull holds warmth from lives before
Now radioactive on the shore
The zone don't take cash or credit cards
Just measuring sticks and safety guards
My prop cuts through the glowing silt
Where no landmark stands no tower built
Deckhand tangled in the cable lines
Mist wraps tight like warning signs
His boots slip wet on rusted deck
Geiger screams a clicked up check
The bridge breathes rust in morning light
Geiger clicks count each passing night
My hull holds warmth from lives before
Now radioactive on the shore
Half life drifting in the wake
Promises we couldn't keep or make
The bridge stands silent span of bone
I carry what the land disowns
Dawn breaks pink on contaminated water
No passenger no son no daughter
Just isotopes and current flow
And me the ferry running slow
The bridge breathes rust in morning light
Geiger clicks count each passing night
My hull holds warmth from lives before
Now radioactive on the shore
The meter runs forever more
No destination just the shore
Click by click the dawn arrives
Click by click the ferry survives
