Track Insight / Lyrics
The ficus by the window drops a leaf
The harbor lights are coming on beneath
I talk to you at dusk, my little fern
You never answer but you always learn
The neon buzzes on the wooden sign
A diner glowing where the hills decline
The salt wind tangles in your quiet fronds
While every boat below just drifts and yawns
Salt and neon, night is falling slow
The harbor holds me like I'm all it knows
Salt and neon, burning soft and low
I'm rooted where the cold tide flows
The sign says open but the door is shut
A single bulb above the counter's cut
The kelp is patient on the jetty stones
The gulls are folding up their weary bones
I water you with tap and quiet praise
You grow a little in the fading haze
Salt and neon, night is falling slow
The harbor holds me like I'm all it knows
Salt and neon, burning soft and low
I'm rooted where the cold tide flows
Monstera by the railing, don't you grieve
The ships come back and then they always leave
The signs will rust and flicker out of tune
The tide will pull the moon across the dune
But you and I will keep our slow routine
The greenest thing this harbor's ever seen
Salt and neon, night is falling slow
The harbor holds me like I'm all it knows
Salt and neon, burning soft and low
I'm rooted where the cold tide flows
And if the bulbs all shatter in the gale
And if the diner goes silent and pale
I'll keep your soil turned, I'll keep your leaves
The only green that this salt harbor keeps
So let the sailors tie their ropes and go
The radio plays something soft and slow
The neon hums a lullaby for two
A botanist, a plant, and all this blue
I'll trace your Latin name against the glass
And watch the evening settle on the grass
Salt and neon, night is falling slow
The harbor holds us like it's all it knows
Salt and neon, burning soft and low
We're rooted where the cold tide flows
The ficus by the window holds its ground
The neon keeps on humming without sound
