You pull the collar tight against the chill
A bicycle bell rings from the cobbled hill
The badge stays home in a drawer tonight
You're just a man beneath the sodium light
No radio static cuts the quiet air
Search the rail where the iron meets the sky
Watch the water swallow every lie
Amsterdam holds secrets in its spine
You'll find what you came for in due time
The current knows the answers you won't speak
A houseboat rocks with a TV glow
You count the windows, three in a tidy row
The case file burned but the memory stays
A canal ring hides the darkest ways
No partner waits with coffee in a paper cup
Search the rail where the iron meets the sky
Watch the water swallow every lie
Amsterdam holds secrets in its spine
You'll find what you came for in due time
The current knows the answers you won't speak
Your breath makes clouds that the wind steals quick
A tram bell clangs on the bridge of brick
No sirens here, no radio call
Just water lapping at the stone wall
The fog eats the sound of your own footsteps
Search the rail where the iron meets the sky
Watch the water swallow every lie
Amsterdam holds secrets in its spine
You'll find what you came for in due time
The current knows the answers you won't speak
The choir voice you buried rises slow
A hymn your mother used to know
Kyrie eleison on the mist
Peace you've never learned to keep or miss
The alto line dissolves in vapor threads
A coin drops plunk in the black below
Ripples spread where the current flows
You turn your collar, walk back to street
The case stays cold but the walk was sweet
The bridge holds nothing you can take away
Search the rail where the iron meets the sky
Watch the water swallow every lie
Amsterdam holds secrets in its spine
You'll find what you came for in due time
The current knows the answers you won't speak
You'll find what you came for in due time
Fog lifts slow from the Herengracht
Your boots know the way back home
The city wakes without you
