Track Insight / Lyrics
Cypress knees drink black water slow
Spanish moss hangs heavy, low
Pocket watch on splintered pine
Verdigris eats the gold design
Chain lies slack where fingers curled
Second hand froze, stopped the world
Rust & dusk on the bayou porch
Gears grind slow beneath the torch
Brass bleeds green in humid night
Watch dies hard, keeps losing light
Rust & dusk, the metal sleeps
Time holds breath in cypress deeps
Moths batter the naked bulb
Radio spits static, dull
Iced tea sweats on warped boards
Freight train shakes the levee cords
Camera lifts, focus pulls tight
Catches decay in fading light
Gator slides through duckweed skin
Moon rises, pale and thin
Watch face catches silver gleam
Frozen at four seventeen
Hands don't tremble, don't reach, don't yearn
Just rust and wait for no return
Rust & dusk on the bayou porch
Gears grind slow beneath the torch
Brass bleeds green in humid night
Watch dies hard, keeps losing light
Rust & dusk, the metal sleeps
Time holds breath in cypress deeps
Shutter snaps — the moment kept
Negative developed, deeply crept
Fixer bath stops the fade
Contact sheet shows what time made
Not memory, not ghost, not trace
Just rust eating the watch face
Screen door slaps the frame once more
Boots hit dirt on the porch floor
Hand reaches out, lifts the chain
Feels the cold, feels the stain
Winds the crown — one, two, three
Spring screams loose, sets the gears free
Rust & dusk on the bayou porch
Gears grind slow beneath the torch
Brass bleeds green in humid night
Watch dies hard, keeps losing light
Rust & dusk, the metal sleeps
Time holds breath in cypress deeps
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Rust & dusk.