Track Insight / Lyrics
One night, one lamp, the warning light
Kept watch till morning, paling the night
The city hummed a million miles gone
But I found my quiet back home
Salt cakes in the seams of the street
Old paint hangs where the rain used to meet
A red corner forgot how to flap
And the next lost its hold with a clap
Watch the colors peel from the wall
Like old promises, one and all
Every word takes a gentler name
Every edge turns around the same
At three, the fog shook the pane
The lamp post leaned into its rain
A green face cracked along the jaw
And the wind took the colors I saw
Watch the letters slip from the wall
Like salt from a lighthouse, one and all
Every edge loses its name
Every scar settles into the same
I know every weathered brick
The mortar worn soft by the pick
A violet horse broke its mane
Then vanished without a name
Watch the faces roll from the wall
Like years in a bucket, one and all
Every color outlives its name
Every bruise is a door to the same
By dawn, one black gull on the wire
Called once, like a lamp in the mire
A figure stood under the stone
Then walked where the red line had gone
Watch the colors fade from the wall
Like distant lights, one and all
Every road has another name
Every wave returns to the same
The cello bends low in the hall
The banjo coughs rain from the wall
I hold one clean corner of stone
The rest of the color is gone
The city's awake but away
Its windows are holding their gray
A gull writes a circle in dust
Then the wind edits the rest
Watch, watch the colors leave from the wall
Like old promises, one and all
Every word takes a brighter name
Every scar is a door to the same
The lamp goes low by the sea
One clean corner remembers me
The city hums a million miles gone
But I find my quiet back home
