Track Insight / Lyrics
I kept the lamp through thirty year
Salt wind and fog were all I'd hear
Now inland far from crashing tide
I watch a different kind of guide
Steel cable hums in evening air
A shadow climbs the rusted stair
Each careful step makes the path clear
The drop is far but I don't fear
Wire walks where the screen once glowed
Balancing on the tales we told
Light throws long across the dirt
Footsteps quiet, never hurt
My boots know every knot and splice
I've walked the void at carnival price
This drive-in screen's a wider beam
Than any spotlight in a dream
Steel cable hums in evening air
A shadow climbs the rusted stair
Each careful step makes the path clear
The drop is far but I don't fear
Wire walks where the screen once glowed
Balancing on the tales we told
Light throws long across the dirt
Footsteps quiet, never hurt
The speaker posts are listing now
Like buoys that lost their mooring vow
Projector room stands dark and cold
A lantern room without the gold
Harmonica wails a lonesome tune
Beneath the climbing quarter moon
Two worlds apart on common ground
One looks up and one looks down
The wire holds what threads unspun
Dawn breaks when the walk is done
Wire walks where the screen once glowed
Balancing on the tales we told
Light throws long across the dirt
Footsteps quiet, never hurt
Morning paints the screen frame deep red
I coil the rope, put tools to bed
The lighthouse keeper nods his head
We both know why the wire's spread
Wire walks where the screen once glowed
Balancing on the tales we told
Light throws long across the dirt
Footsteps quiet, never hurt
Wire walks where the screen once glowed
Balancing on the tales we told
Pedal steel fades on the breeze
Two shadows walking separate seas