Track Insight / Lyrics
You climb the pass before the dawn
Engine coughs a heavy yawn
The bridge looms dark through falling snow
Ancient arches watch below
A figure waits at center span
Weather face and calloused hand
He counts the coin you place in palm
Like grains of sand through frozen land
Toll Man stands on frozen stone
Guards the temple, guards the bone
Snow covers what the ages built
Stone beneath the winter quilt
Every soul pays passing through
Toll Man watches, waiting for you
Beneath the bridge the temple sleeps
Where mountain roots go dark and deep
Stone gods keep their patient watch
Snow hides the stairs and hides the notch
Toll Man stands on frozen stone
Guards the temple, guards the bone
Snow covers what the ages built
Stone beneath the winter quilt
Every soul pays passing through
Toll Man watches, waiting for you
Blizzard howls through iron rails
Ancient bell tolls, never fails
Stone remembers every name
Carved in ice and frozen flame
You drive on through night and cold
Stories written, never old
You drop the coin in weathered palm
He nods slow like coming calm
Old driver knows the mountain code
Pay the toll and share the load
Engine roars past center span
Headlights catch the toll man's hand
Temple sleeps beneath the snow
Another mile, another toll
Toll Man stands on frozen stone
Guards the temple, guards the bone
Snow covers what the ages built
Stone beneath the winter quilt
Every soul pays passing through
Toll Man watches, waiting for you
Toll Man stands on frozen stone
Guards the temple, guards the bone