Track Insight / Lyrics
You tune the G string by the grill light
Exhaust fumes choke the coastal night
Rosin dust on calloused thumb
Another song for no one comes
Salt creeps in the fingerboard
Dreams dissolve on rotting wood
Bow hair snaps like brittle wire
No one stays to hear the choir
Rust blooms on the fine tuners
Salt wind sings through broken speakers
You play until the fingers bleed
For a crowd that does not need
Tide rises, bridge groans low
Strings tremble, bow moans slow
Faster now, heart pounds hard
Salt water drowns the sound
Play on through the rust and rosin
Play on, let the salt settle in
Bow down to the wind and rain
Play it hard, play it again
Regulars order coffee black
They don't watch and don't look back
Tip jar holds a sandy coin
King of concrete, lost your throne
Rust blooms on the fine tuners
Salt wind sings through broken speakers
You play until the fingers bleed
For a crowd that does not need
Case lies open on the grit
Winter wind don't care a bit
Varnish peels like sunburned skin
Let the oxidation in
Maybe morning brings a tourist
Someone hungry for the purest
Note you hold between the teeth
Of this slow and salty death
Rust blooms on the fine tuners
Salt wind sings through broken speakers
You play until the fingers bleed
For a crowd that does not need
Rust blooms on the fine tuners
Salt wind sings through broken speakers
Grill smoke curls through F-hole wide
Nowhere left for sound to hide
Wipe the rosin off the stick
Close the case up, call it quits
Salt and rosin in the air
Salt and rosin everywhere
Fade to gray, fade to gray
Fade to gray, fade away
Last note hangs in salty air
Cook flips eggs without a care