Track Insight / Lyrics
I polish glass on lantern room
Salt crust blooms in afternoon
Film canister sits cold and still
Arcade synths climb up the hill
Shutter sleeps in leather case
Neon ghosts leave no trace
Salt and silver, dark and deep
Keeper wakes while city sleeps
Salt and silver, wait for light
Expose the negative to night
Salt and silver, hold the frame
Time develops just the same
Quarter-inch jack hums low and warm
Rhodes chord swells through plastic storm
I adjust the focus ring
Hear the coin-op singer sing
Aperture waits for the sign
Developer marks the line
Salt and silver, dark and deep
Keeper wakes while city sleeps
Salt and silver, wait for light
Expose the negative to night
Salt and silver, hold the frame
Time develops just the same
Fog horn blows at midnight hour
Tape deck eats the dying power
Four hundred speed reads the light
Captures what the shadows write
Wind the lever, cock the spring
Arcade heartbeat makes it sing
Salt and silver, dark and deep
Keeper wakes while city sleeps
Salt and silver, wait for light
Expose the negative to night
Salt and silver, hold the frame
Time develops just the same
No lens cap for the storm outside
Just phosphor glow and rising tide
I develop in the sodium bath
Salt and silver find the path
Prints dry on a wooden line
Salt water mixes with the wine
Of developer, fixer, stop
Negative reveals the crop
Keeper's hands know every grain
Light writes weather, light writes tide
Salt and silver, dark and deep
Keeper wakes while city sleeps
Salt and silver, wait for light
Expose the negative to night
Salt and silver, hold the frame
Time develops just the same
Salt and silver, dark and deep
Keeper wakes while city sleeps