Track Insight / Lyrics
Your booth leans heavy on rusted hinge
Quercus robur drops its fringe
You stamp the ticket, soft and low
Solanum dulcamara grows
Tollkeeper, you tend the green night shade
Roots hold the gravel where the toll is paid
Taxus baccata, dark and deep
You watch the traffic, watch it sleep
The workshop backyard swallows light
Hedera helix claims the night
You sip your tea from chipped enamel
Betula pendula stands sentinel
Tollkeeper, you tend the green night shade
Roots hold the gravel where the toll is paid
Taxus baccata, dark and deep
You watch the traffic, watch it sleep
No words needed between us two
Pinus sylvestris drinks the dew
Your fingers brush the bark, so rough
I name the species, that's enough
Tollkeeper, you tend the green night shade
Roots hold the gravel where the toll is paid
Taxus baccata, dark and deep
You watch the traffic, watch it sleep
The barrier lifts, the engines roar
But you stay rooted on this floor
Latin names like prayer beads slide
Two quiet strangers, side by side
Dawn paints the yew in gold and grey
You count the coins, I count the day
Fagus sylvatica holds the sky
No toll for silence, you and I
Tollkeeper, you tend the green night shade
Roots hold the gravel where the toll is paid
Taxus baccata, dark and deep
No toll for silence, you and me
Taxus baccata, dark and deep
You watch the traffic, watch it sleep
No toll for silence, you and me
Just roots and coins and taxonomy
