Track Insight / Lyrics
You trim the wick before the dark descends
Salt crusts the glass where the fresnel lens bends
A nor'easter howls round the iron stair
You've weathered worse than children in the air
The village glows with amber sodium light
Paper ghosts flutter on the porch rail tonight
Small boots thump heavy on the weathered pier
Witches and pirates shouting loud and clear
Sodium Halloween, the beam cuts through the mist
Sodium Halloween, the light you can't resist
Sodium Halloween, the tide pulls at the shore
Sodium Halloween, you've seen this all before
A skeleton grins from a driftwood fence
The smell of smoke and candy, thick and dense
You climb the lantern room, your knees complain
Forty years of storms inside each vein
Sodium Halloween, the beam cuts through the mist
Sodium Halloween, the light you can't resist
Sodium Halloween, the tide pulls at the shore
Sodium Halloween, you've seen this all before
The horn blasts low, a warning to the fleet
But tonight the water's calm and sweet
No wreckers' fires, no false signal flame
Just children's laughter calling out your name
You pour a dram of rye in a chipped tin cup
The rotating prism throws the shadows up
A princess waves from the rocks below
You dip the lens, a silent hello
The last group passes, a vampire and a cat
The mist swallows sound, imagine that
You check the fuel, the mechanism's sound
Another Halloween the world goes round
Sodium Halloween, the beam cuts through the mist
Sodium Halloween, the light you can't resist
Sodium Halloween, the tide pulls at the shore
Sodium Halloween, you don't keep watch no more
The lamp goes dark at morning's gray
Another year you've kept the bay
