Track Insight / Lyrics
You trim the wick before the dusk descends
Salt crusts your fingers where the glass lens bends
The beam cuts clean across the turning tide
You've watched a hundred years from inside
Now mist rolls thick from creek to county road
Where sodium lamps bleed orange, heavy load
Small shapes move slow in costumes, paper-thin
They knock on doors where you have never been
Halloween rides the sodium tide
Mist swallows footfalls, nowhere to hide
The light keeps turning, steady, slow, and wide
You watch the shadows slip from side to side
Your logbook lists the ships that didn't make it
Tonight the dead walk where the living take it
A plastic pumpkin glows on every porch
You've seen worse things than ghost and goblin scorch
Halloween rides the sodium tide
Mist swallows footfalls, nowhere to hide
The light keeps turning, steady, slow, and wide
You watch the shadows slip from side to side
The horn blows low across the harbor mouth
No trick, no treat, just salt wind heading south
You've kept the flame through war and storm and peace
This night's no different, let the darkness cease
The candy bowls run empty, porch lights die
Last witch and vampire shuffle homeward, shy
The mist grows thicker, swallowing the street
Your beam still sweeps its steady, patient beat
Dawn cracks gray across the water's face
No wreckage found, no souls lost in this place
You'll sleep now through the glare of November sun
Until the mist rolls in and night's begun
Halloween rides the sodium tide
Mist swallows footfalls, nowhere to hide
The light keeps turning, steady, slow, and wide
You watch the shadows slip from side to side
Halloween rides the sodium tide
The keeper watches, turning with the tide
The beam cuts clean. The mist holds fast.
You keep the light. The night has passed.
