Track Insight / Lyrics
Ferris wheel ribs show bone white against grey
My pivot frozen stiff since the last holiday
Verdigris blooms green on my copper spine
I taste the iron rain and the forgotten pine
No cotton candy clouds
No calliope remains
Just silence unspooling
Along the midway chains
I am the arrow that forgot the wind
A copper saint with a rusted grin
Pinned to the peak where the painted horses stall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Roller coaster tracks fold like prayer hands gone slack
Peeling clown faces smile but the paint cracks back
I wore the gilded rooster, proud and bright
Now I catch the dusk in the failing light
No cotton candy clouds
No calliope remains
Just silence unspooling
Along the midway chains
I am the arrow that forgot the wind
A copper saint with a rusted grin
Pinned to the peak where the painted horses stall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Altos hum low in the chest of the breeze
Half-remembered verses from under the eaves
Doxology drafted by squirrels and by time
No soprano soars, just a low fractured chime
Turn, turn, the scripture says
To everything a season laid
But my bolt is seized, my joints are fused
By forty autumns, used and used
I cannot bow, I cannot flee
Stuck preaching north to a dead Ferris wheel
I am the arrow that forgot the wind
A copper saint with a rusted grin
Pinned to the peak where the painted horses stall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Groundskeeper comes with his ring of keys
Oil can prayer for the hinge and the freeze
One sharp twist, a groan, a surrender of metal
I spin three-sixty, settling, settled
I am the arrow that found the wind
A copper saint with a polished grin
Loose on the peak where the painted horses stall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
Singing a hymn for the empty hall
North wind sings out tenor
I answer the call
