Track Insight / Lyrics
The alley stones are slick with frost
The rowboat sits, its mooring lost
I keep the lamp beside the door
For someone who don't come no more
The harbor ice has sealed the bay
The gulls have packed and flown away
I count the knots I used to tie
When you were here to wave goodbye
Row me home, row me slow
Through the winter's frozen glow
Row me home, row me true
Every cobble leads to you
The cedar planks have soaked up years
Of salt and snow and unshed tears
I drag my boots across the square
And smell the cold rope in the air
Row me home, row me slow
Through the winter's frozen glow
Row me home, row me true
Every cobble leads to you
The light spins round, the tide goes out
I hold the beam against the doubt
One more storm, one more year
I'll keep the lantern burning here
The alley narrows to a thread
The rowboat rests its weary head
I trace the grain with one raw hand
The way you taught me on the sand
The snow has buried all the tracks
But I ain't turning nothing back
I'll leave the oars against the stone
Until you find your way back home
Row me home, row me slow
Through the winter's frozen glow
Row me home, row me true
Every cobble leads to you
The oarlocks freeze, the cobbles gleam
A wooden hull holds one last dream
