Track Insight / Lyrics
Flashlight flickers in the alley dark
Neon signs hum their sleekened spark
Faded iron latticework cradles the light
As dusk succumbs to velvet night
Illumined by the glow it emits
A worn sentinel on its rusty tits
Beaten by salt and grime, the metal worn
Yet still it casts its orange-hazed dawn
Each day it bears witness to the same
Urban silhouettes etched in its flame
A silhouette of stumbles, of missed connections
Ephemeral lives beneath its pulsing extensions
Its beam darts and dances with frenzied zeal
A spotlight on life's fleeting, secret deal
A momentary marvel of electrical fire
As city souls converge in its flickering desire
Yet as seasons turn and time's stern grasp
Claims the once shiny surface in its clasp
The light grows dim, the function wanes
Will it soon succumb to rust's sapless pains?
Rusty watch, casting its final beam
On the iron labyrinth that was once a dream
Rusty watch, faded, creaking, worn yet still
It illuminates the secrets the city's steel
Rusty watch, the shadows start to sway
As night's thick veil descends to steal the day
Rusty watch, perhaps its final time
To spotlight the whispers of the concrete rhyme
Slap bass thumps, horns punch through the night
As neon signs rev up for the city's delight
Then suddenly the power flickers out
Leaving the watch in total, blackened doubt
Yet in the darkness, a communal glow
From cellphones raised as a spontaneous show
Rusty watch, the revolution starts to spin
As strangers unite in a flash mob within
Rusty watch, a beacon for the bold
A symbol for the power of community to hold
Flashlight gone to dust, its purpose served
Yet in its wake, a non-stop production persisted
A proof that life will endure, even the old and worn
Until the iron fire escape to rust is born.
