Track Insight / Lyrics
I watched the beam sweep thirty years
Salt crusted on the lens gears
Now I park where semis wait
Neon paints the rusted plate
The light don't sweep no more
Just flickers on the cargo door
No foghorn calls the watch to stand
Just vinyl booths on gravel land
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Freight car shining in the lot
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Beam is gone but I am not
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Motel sign buzzes sodium yellow
Paint peels on the freight car fellow
I log the hours in my head
Trade the lamp for beer instead
The light don't sweep no more
Just flickers on the cargo door
No foghorn calls the watch to stand
Just vinyl booths on gravel land
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Freight car shining in the lot
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Beam is gone but I am not
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Storm came hard in eighty-nine
Kept the lens aligned and fine
Now the storm is parking lots
Beam lives on in neon spots
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, hear me call
Salt and neon burning
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, watch it fall
Truckers sleep in curtained cabs
Dreams of miles and diesel slabs
I walk the lot with steady stride
No more tower, no more tide
Dawn will break the sodium glow
Freight car catches first light slow
But tonight the reflection holds
Salt and neon, stories told
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Freight car shining in the lot
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Beam is gone but I am not
Salt and neon, salt and neon
Yeah, salt and neon, salt and neon
Light keeps moving on the steel
Keeper's rest is finally real
Light keeps moving on the steel