Track Insight / Lyrics
Rusted tugboat tied up, shadows cast long
City skyline enormous, night sounds strong
Engines humming softly, propellers wake
Illuminated waters, a shimmering lake
Neon lights a'blazing, reflections dancing free
Midnight edge of reckoning, then new day beckons me
From subway's steel confines to open dockside air
Time to leave this city's covetous glare
Let go the leviathan, set the chains a'care
No more the sound of sirens, just the gulls who care
I'll find some quiet harbor, hear the ocean's song
Where the city's endless hunger, does not keep me wrong
Dawn begins to break, sky's a deepening hue
Subway doors part slowly, out to breathe anew
I step onto the concrete, feel the city's heat
Freedom's sweet release after a long, confined beat
Streets transform to sidewalks, lights begin to rise
The world awakening slowly, city's gates unclose
I chase the morning sunrise, with the tugboat's wake
Newfound liberty calling, where the horizon's at stake
Whale-song echoes carried, on the salt-tinged air
Morning light caresses, my back, my hair
Harbor's bustling garments, replaced with sea-soaked skin
No more the sound of steel, just the wind within
Neon lights a'blazing, reflections dancing free
Midnight edge of reckoning, then new day beckons me
From dockside open freedom to subway's throngs once more
Time to rejoin the city's pulse, with stories yet in store
Let go the ocean's whispers, set my course a'stray
No more the cry of gulls, just the steel's monotone gray
I'll find some hidden subway, to lose myself once more
Where the sea's wild solitude, becomes an urban score
Through tunnels dark and vaulted, I'll ride once more
Amidst the city's mighty heart, where seconds tick the score
Each stop a chance to lose myself, to rediscover
The lines that thread our lives, unspoken, urgent
Arrival bells begin ringing, platform lights ablaze
City nightbird's dawn chorus, echoes the tugboat's ways
I disembark, into the fray, with the city's hum alive
A small cog in its machine, with stories yet to arrive
Subway's lights a'flicker, leaving me to the day
The tugboat's wake a'vanishing, as the city finds its sway
Neon dreams giving way, to concrete morning's hold
In this metropolis of contrasts, where the old and new unfold.
