Track Insight / Lyrics
Wrench slips on the manifold bolt
Salt wind cuts through the garage door
Nitrous bottle gleams cold and blue
Harbor lights bleed into the view
Fingers black with carbon and grease
Choir breath still lives in these palms
Altos hummed in minor thirds
Now I tune what the engine serves
Salt in the fuel, salt in the line
Pier wind sings through the intake whine
Salt in the fuel, salt in the blood
Midnight harbor, holy flood
Torque wrench clicks at ninety pounds
Gull cries scatter on the sound
Compression builds in cylinder walls
Tide pulls back, the ocean calls
Salt in the fuel, salt in the line
Pier wind sings through the intake whine
Salt in the fuel, salt in the blood
Midnight harbor, holy flood
Hymnals gather dust in a trunk
But the harmonics never sunk
Every bolt turned is a prayer said
Every rev wakes the sleeping dead
Turbo spools with a dentist's whine
Salt crust forms on the chrome shine
I breathe deep like before the anthem
Engine and pier in perfect tandem
Dawn cracks open the steel-gray sky
Nitrous purge, a holy sigh
Wrench rests warm on the intake manifold
Salt and machine, perfectly coiled
Salt in the fuel, salt in the line
Pier wind sings through the intake whine
Salt in the fuel, salt in the blood
Midnight harbor, holy flood
Salt in the fuel, salt in the line
Pier wind sings through the intake whine
Salt remains in the fuel line
Salt remains in the blood stream