Track Insight / Lyrics
You left the harbor for a highway sign
Traded salted ropes for a painted line
The radio plays static where the stations fade
You count the semis like a lost parade
Salt and asphalt, that's your story now
Salt and asphalt, wipe your face and bow
The ocean taught you how to disappear
Salt and asphalt, son, you're stranded here
The motel clerk don't ask you where you been
He's seen the boat shoes and the weathered skin
You pay in crumpled bills and turn the key
The room smells like a stranger's memory
Salt and asphalt, that's your story now
Salt and asphalt, wipe your face and bow
The ocean taught you how to disappear
Salt and asphalt, son, you're stranded here
You tell the ceiling 'bout the things you saw
The blackened water and the broken law
The way the mast would sing against the squall
The way a man can feel so small
Salt and asphalt, that's your story now
Salt and asphalt, wipe your face and bow
The ocean taught you how to disappear
Salt and asphalt, son, you're stranded here
Your hands still shake like rigging in a gale
You drink the tap water and call it ale
The mirror shows a face you used to know
Back when the tide would tell you where to go
Every road's a current pulling out
Every town's a port you live without
You can't drop anchor in the sand
You can't hold weather in your hand
The sun comes up and burns the parking lot
You're just a name the desk girl forgot
You start the engine, let it idle low
A driver's got no harbor, don't you know
Salt and asphalt, that's your story now
Salt and asphalt, wipe your face and bow
The ocean taught you how to disappear
Salt and asphalt, son, you're stranded here
Meter's running, son, the desert's in your eyes
Santa Fe is closing down the skies
