Track Insight / Lyrics
I stand bolted to the concrete spine
Where tidal wind cuts through the pine
Salt eats the gears I left behind
My lens catches moon and broken line
Salt and silver, tangled deep
Where the overpass curves to sleep
Salt and silver, holding on
Long after the final dawn
Cars scream past on ribbon tar
Their headlights paint my metal scar
I project the sky, each falling star
No audience to wonder where they are
Salt and silver, tangled deep
Where the overpass curves to sleep
Salt and silver, holding on
Long after the final dawn
The keeper's voice rides on the gale
He taught me how to trim the sail
Now reel spins out a phantom tale
While barnacles kiss the housing pale
Salt and silver, tangled deep
Where the overpass curves to sleep
Salt and silver, holding on
Long after the final dawn
No screen to catch what I throw
Just asphalt drinking ghostly glow
The tide climbs rung by iron rung
My beam dissolves on a dead man's tongue
Morning fractures through the rusted grate
I still turn the crank, I still wait
The film burned out at thirty-eight
But light persists in a keeper's fate
Salt and silver, tangled deep
Where the overpass curves to sleep
Salt and silver, holding on
Long after the final dawn
Salt and silver, tangled deep
Where the overpass curves to sleep
Lamp goes dark. The tide keeps time.
