Track Insight / Lyrics
I was forged in a furnace coughing coal
Hammered thin where the monster hunters go
Now I rest in a calloused palm tonight
Reflecting a screen that forgot its glow
Rag moves slow over nickel skin
Each pass pulls the grime from deep within
Salt and ichor surrender to cloth
Breath holds steady between each oath
Silver screen steel catches ghost projection
Flicker frames of a western's last direction
Witcher wipes slow, patient as tide
I hold the dark where the monsters hide
Speaker poles lean like drowned pier pilings
Projector hum dies, no final reel beginning
Speckled dust settles on cracked asphalt rows
I mirror the silence where the picture goes
Rag moves slow over nickel skin
Each pass pulls the grime from deep within
Salt and ichor surrender to cloth
Breath holds steady between each oath
Silver screen steel catches ghost projection
Flicker frames of a western's last direction
Witcher wipes slow, patient as tide
I hold the dark where the monsters hide
Oil cloth smells of linseed and old brine
Fingers trace the fuller's shallow line
No lantern room, no Fresnel lens to tend
Just a blade that remembers every end
Storm glass falls, the barometer drops low
Wind screams round the headland, bitter and slow
But the witcher doesn't flinch, doesn't run
He knows the dawn comes when the night is done
Steel drinks the starlight, cold and bright
Ready for the hunt at morning light
Silver screen steel catches ghost projection
Flicker frames of a western's last direction
Witcher wipes slow, patient as tide
I hold the dark where the monsters hide
Dawn bleeds pale through the torn screen fabric
Metal warms where the cloth made contact
No monsters left in this abandoned place
Just salt and steel keeping steady pace
Silver screen steel catches ghost projection
Flicker frames of a western's last direction
Witcher wipes slow, patient as tide
I hold the dark where the monsters hide
Silver screen steel, silver screen steel
Salt on the edge, forged to heal
Salt on the edge, forged to heal
Salt on the edge, forged to heal