Track Insight / Lyrics
Postcard corners curl in damp wind
Salt eats the image, salt on the skin
Drive-in screen wears storm like a shroud
Ink bleeds blue where her eyes were proud
Salt on the screen, salt on the frame
Tide takes the picture, leaves the name
Keeper watches, waits for the beam
Salt on the screen, salt on the gleam
Speaker pole leans where the dunes shift
Her hand still raised, a frozen lift
Rhodes chords drift on brine-heavy breeze
Time holds its breath between the seas
Salt on the screen, salt on the frame
Tide takes the picture, leaves the name
Keeper watches, waits for the beam
Salt on the screen, salt on the gleam
Logbook entry light held true tonight
No ship comes home to this harbor light
Postcard warps in the keeper's palm
Only gulls cry where the projector hummed
Salt on the screen, salt on the frame
Tide takes the picture, leaves the name
Keeper watches, waits for the beam
Salt on the screen, salt on the gleam
Oil lamp flickers, wick turns black
Double bass walks the ocean floor
Trumpet sighs through the broken glass
Love outlasts the reel, outlasts the shore
Morning finds the card face down in sand
Keeper tends the fresnel lens by hand
Image gone, only salt-rimmed white
Another night done, another light
