Track Insight / Lyrics
Leather case cracked on passenger seat
Red dust settled where the latch meets
Forty rolls of Gold two-hundred sleep
Waiting for the promise that we keep
Silver halide drinks the morning fire
Mile markers burn like choir wire
Sprocket teeth catch light like psalter strings
Every frame a hymn the desert sings
Ocotillo arms raise toward the blue
Aperture clicks, a psalm half-knew
Creosote scent on the hot wind's breath
Exposure writes what eyes bequeath
Silver halide drinks the morning fire
Mile markers burn like choir wire
Sprocket teeth catch light like psalter strings
Every frame a hymn the desert sings
Petrified wood in the roadside cut
Shutter speed at one-two-fifty shut
Light leaks kiss the edges, holy flaws
Benediction in the camera's jaws
No viewfinder for the things unseen
Just emulsion, salt, and silver sheen
The highway hums a drone in D
Develop later, wait and see
Glovebox finds me when the tank runs dry
Fingers brush the leather, passing by
Load me fresh, point west toward Flagstaff hills
Catch the canyon's shadow, caught in stills
Silver halide drinks the morning fire
Mile markers burn like choir wire
Sprocket teeth catch light like psalter strings
Every frame a hymn the desert sings
Contact sheets spread on a motel bed
Negatives dense with the words unsaid
Altos hum in the developer tray
Latent image prays the light to stay
Silver halide drinks the morning fire
Mile markers burn like choir wire
Sprocket teeth catch light like psalter strings
Every frame a hymn the desert sings
Shutter closes, hymn complete
Negative holds what eyes delete