Track Insight / Lyrics
Red flakes peel from my curved spine
Salt memory in the rust line
Motel sign buzzes through the night
I keep my watch without a light
Lizard darts across my base
Desert dust has claimed my place
Rust and sand, rust and sand
No garden left for my old hand
Rust and sand, rust and sand
Just dry wind across the land
Rust and sand, rust and sand
I still catch what the sky won't hand
Morning sun warms my metal skin
No seedlings wait to drink within
Tourists pass with ice in cups
I hold the heat, I hold it up
Shadow stretches long and thin
Day begins where night has been
Once I fed the rose and thyme
Kept the green rows in perfect time
Now the mesa stretches wide and bare
No drop to catch, no drop to share
Cactus blooms once in a year
I stay fixed, I stay right here
Rust and sand, rust and sand
No garden left for my old hand
Rust and sand, rust and sand
Just dry wind across the land
Rust and sand, rust and sand
I still catch what the sky won't hand
Keeper's log says light must shine
Even when no ships define
The coast I knew, the tide I read
Now I serve a different need
Storm glass steady, lamp trimmed true
Same old work, same old view
Night brings stars I used to chart
Different map, but same old heart
Coyote sings to the mesa top
I don't move, I don't stop
Dawn paints the sign in peach and gray
Another round of the same old day
Rust and sand, rust and sand
No garden left for my old hand
Rust and sand, rust and sand
Just dry wind across the land
Rust and sand, rust and sand
Still I catch what the sky won't hand
Rust and sand, rust and sand
Still I catch what the sky won't hand
Iron sits where no rain falls
Iron sits where no rain falls
