Track Insight / Lyrics
Battered brass spins slow in recycled air
No green thing grows in this metal sphere
Fourteen hours since the last supply
Mycelium creeps where the cables lie
True north pulls me through the bay doors wide
Chlorophyll dreams in the turning tide
No sun to measure, no soil to test
Just stars and steel and this beating chest
Arabidopsis thaliana records the dark
Phototropism fails without a spark
You carry seeds in your coat's deep seam
Dormant life waiting for a dream
True north pulls me through the bay doors wide
Chlorophyll dreams in the turning tide
No sun to measure, no soil to test
Just stars and steel and this beating chest
Hydraulics hiss like winter wind through pine
Quercus alba rings in absent time
The manifest reads oxygen and wire
But I smell loam beneath the engine fire
True north pulls me through the bay doors wide
Chlorophyll dreams in the turning tide
No sun to measure, no soil to test
Just stars and steel and this beating chest
Gravitropism guides the root tip down
Even in orbit, on this metal ground
The compass knows what the charts omit
Life finds purchase, bit by bit
Spores settle on the landing gear struts
Silene stenophylla wakes from ruts
Thirty thousand years in permafrost sleep
Now waking where the deep vacuums keep
True north pulls me through the bay doors wide
Chlorophyll dreams in the turning tide
No sun to measure, no soil to test
Just stars and steel and this beating chest
True north pulls me through the bay doors wide
Chlorophyll dreams in the turning tide
Roots hold fast in metal earth
True north blooms for all it's worth
