Track Insight / Lyrics
Iron depot holds the night
Salt air eats the window light
Leica sleeps in leather case
Waiting for the morning chase
Knew the current by the kelp
Read the weather by the swell
Keeper's instinct, can't you help
Waiting for a tale to tell
Salt and silver in the dark
Salt and silver leaves its mark
Light writes what the sea remembers
Fixed in bromide, warm as embers
Peeling paint like old chart edges
Salt has claimed the window ledges
Film canister holds the line
Undeveloped, waiting time
Trimmed the wick at midnight watch
Counted flashes, white and green
Now the aperture stays stopped
Cleanest glass you've ever seen
Salt and silver in the dark
Salt and silver leaves its mark
Light writes what the sea remembers
Fixed in bromide, warm as embers
Muted trumpet, cold and damp
Brushed drums roll round the lamp
Rhodes piano hums low and warm
Double bass rides coming storm
No darkroom here, no running water
Just the depot, damp and deep
But the latent image waits its turn
While the world goes on to sleep
Salt and silver in the dark
Salt and silver leaves its mark
Light writes what the sea remembers
Fixed in bromide, warm as embers
Keeper's log reads calm and steady
Tower sold to young and ready
Camera wakes in morning diesel
Stories developed, brave and real
Salt and silver in the dark
Salt and silver leaves its mark
Light writes what the sea remembers
Fixed in bromide, warm as embers
One last frame before the dark
Salt and silver makes its mark
Shutter clicks on empty track
Salt and silver, don't look back