Track Insight / Lyrics
I count the tiles where water pools
Reflecting lights by broken rules
The lamp above swings slow and cold
Its glow reveals the barnacled hold
Salt and steel meet underground
Where tide and track share hallowed ground
No lantern here to guide the way
Just flicker bulbs and dying day
I trimmed the wick at three each dawn
Before the storm could bite the sand
The beam cut through the heavy black
And brought the wandering vessels back
Salt and steel meet underground
Where tide and track share hallowed ground
No lantern here to guide the way
Just flicker bulbs and dying day
The last car shudders, doors exhale
A rush of air, a metallic veil
I read the map of cracks and stains
Like charts I know from storm-tossed mains
Salt and steel meet underground
Where tide and track share hallowed ground
No lantern here to guide the way
Just flicker bulbs and dying day
The foghorn shook the thick window glass
Each blast a prayer for those who pass
Now silence sits where sound once stood
I miss the rhythm, understood
No keeper's log, no catch to weigh
Just sounds that bounce in tiled bay
The current pulls both deep and dark
But here no stars to chart the arc
Only steel and salt remain
A gull cries out from somewhere near
The platform clears, the coast is clear
Two worlds collapse in one breath held
Where lantern light and signal meld
Salt and steel meet underground
Where tide and track share hallowed ground
No lantern here to guide the way
Just flicker bulbs and dying day
Salt and steel, we stay, we stay
The tide returns at dawn's first gray
Salt and steel remain below
