Track Insight / Lyrics
You tend the ferns where brick arches meet
The Charles River wind bites the street
Your glass roof holds the waning heat
While autumn leaves pile at your feet
Down in the sidewalk sky
Where the sun don't shine but the plants grow high
You keep the green alive
While the city learns to thrive
Steam rises from the heated beds
Your hands are soil-stained, rough and red
The T-rumbles shake the overhead
But seedlings sleep in earthen thread
Down in the sidewalk sky
Where the sun don't shine but the plants grow high
You keep the green alive
While the city learns to thrive
October paints the Beacon Hill gold
Your tomatoes ripen, round and cold
A hymn you hummed in choir days told
Now the green life takes hold
The glass is fogged with morning breath
You taste the salt of ancient earth
No stained glass saints, just photosynthesis
Converting light to something blessed
The bricks are numbered, history preserved
Each one cleaned and carefully observed
You plant your bulbs with steady nerves
And wait for spring's delayed reserves
Down in the sidewalk sky
Where the sun don't shine but the plants grow high
You keep the green alive
While the city learns to thrive
When snow caps the Common's elm crown
You'll harvest greens in underground
No congregation, just the sound
Of water dripping, life found
Down in the sidewalk sky
Where the sun don't shine but the plants grow high
You keep the green alive
While the city learns to thrive
You grow your world where feet pass by
In the sidewalk sky
