Track Insight / Lyrics
You rub the hide with cloth and brine
Each stroke a root, each pass a line
The awl bites deep through tempered skin
Where tannin lives from Quercus kin
Salt and stitch hold fast the night
Harbor lights reflect the shine
You buff the shadow into light
One sole at a time, one sole at a time
Tarred rope coils near your weathered bench
Gulls cry above the drowning wrench
Suaeda greens the gray stone cracks
While waxed thread pulls its steady tracks
Salt and stitch hold fast the night
Harbor lights reflect the shine
You buff the shadow into light
One sole at a time, one sole at a time
Limonium blooms in purple spray
Where tide marks fade on pier each day
The hammer falls, the welt seats tight
Like rhizomes binding through the night
Salt and stitch hold fast the night
Harbor lights reflect the shine
You buff the shadow into light
One sole at a time, one sole at a time
Armeria tufts cling low and tough
Your fingers know the leather's bluff
No machine can match this human pace
Each boot a root in salted space
Salt and stitch hold fast the night
Harbor lights reflect the shine
You buff the shadow into light
One sole at a time, one sole at a time
Zostera sways in current deep
While you stitch the world to sleep
Brush the grain, let salt wind sing
Midnight pier, your hands know everything
