Track Insight / Lyrics
She trades her apron for a badge
Florescent hum replaces grill's rage
Card catalog draws her like gravy
Dewey Decimal saves her daily
Steel thermos knows her grinding hands
Warms her palms through archive lands
Caffeine blood in metal veins
Keeps her sane through dusty chains
Microfiche spins like pie display
She hunts obits from yesterday
Birth announcements, wedding news
Filed in drawers she'll memorize
Steel thermos knows her grinding hands
Warms her palms through archive lands
Caffeine blood in metal veins
Keeps her sane through dusty chains
Basement air tastes like old grease
Not the kind that brings her peace
Paper crumbles, bindings crack
She don't look up, she don't look back
Order up, the catalog calls
She answers quiet through these walls
No short-order slang, no counter talk
Just silent rows where scholars walk
Her fingers trace an ancestor's name
Same motion pouring coffee same
Steam rises from the thermos crown
History warms her going down
Steel thermos knows her grinding hands
Warms her palms through archive lands
Caffeine blood in metal veins
Keeps her sane through dusty chains
Morning shift pulls her back upstairs
To scrambled eggs and regular stares
But basement dust stays on her sleeve
And I keep coffee hot for Eve
Steel thermos knows her grinding hands
Warms her palms through archive lands
Caffeine blood in metal veins
Keeps her sane through dusty chains
Dented lid seals morning brew
She'll need me when the night breaks through
