Track Insight / Lyrics
Dawn breaks slow on Quai de la Tournelle
Cobblestones still slick from weekend rain
Left my ferry moored where currents swell
Climbed the iron stairs to breathe again
Rooftops never lie to those who wait
Seine keeps rolling past the garden gate
Taxi meter stops but time don't pause
Paris writes its prose in copper gauze
Meter's off but I still know the street
Mansard zinc glints sharp in morning light
Waited years for this terrace seat
City wakes up slow but sure and bright
Rooftops never lie to those who wait
Seine keeps rolling past the garden gate
Taxi meter stops but time don't pause
Paris writes its prose in copper gauze
Old drivers say the rain brings honest fare
Tourists chase the tower's flashing beam
Up here silence tastes like wine and air
Rooftops hold the truth of every dream
No radio, no dispatcher's call
The Seine don't care who rises or who falls
Just pigeons on the chimney pots at dawn
It just reflects the sky when night is gone
My hands still smell of rope and diesel oil
But coffee steams in chipped ceramic cup
No fare to chase, no schedule left to spoil
Just rooftops waking, drinking sunlight up
Rooftops never lie to those who wait
Seine keeps rolling past the garden gate
Taxi meter stops but time don't pause
Paris writes its prose in copper gauze
Evening paints the zinc in rose and gold
Another shift waits down at Pont Marie
But terrace time is never bought or sold
Rooftops never lie to those who see
Rooftops never lie to those who wait
Seine keeps rolling past the garden gate
Taxi meter stops but time don't pause
Paris writes its prose in copper gauze
Seine keeps rolling, I keep watching still
Rooftops never lie, they never will
