Track Insight / Lyrics
Rain taps softly, dark and near
A low whistle settles near
The harbor hushes, late and clear
Old stones wake with one small tear
When weather wakes the salt in me
The old tide breathes beneath my feet
I hold the rain in every seam
And warm the lost roads with their heat
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I know the weight of waiting hours
I know the ache of rusting hinges
I know how silence turns to showers
And how the doorway bends and changes
Smell of rain on warm stones
Bring me home where autumn roams
Carry me where daylight goes
Keep me safe when evening blows
At dusk the cabin windows shake
A lantern wets the hollow key
I hear old boots come down the lane
And whistle low for company
[Pre-
I know the pull of ropes and chains
The bitter salt beneath my tongue
I know the weight of autumn rains
And all the songs the storm has sung
Smell of rain on warm stones
Bring me home where autumn roams
Carry me where daylight goes
Keep me safe when evening blows
A gull forgets the pieces of me
A fishing blade cuts silver foam
The sea lifts scraps of memory
And drags them home where I belong
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I felt the keeper's final watch
His weathered palm upon my grain
I hear the tide break, swell, and catch
The last blue glimmer of the rain
Smell of rain on warm stones
Bring me home where autumn roams
Carry me where daylight goes
Keep me safe when evening blows
At midnight, thunder nails the tin
A storm taps letters through my skin
I keep the hush the keeper hid
And hold the harbor in my mind
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No engines wake the sleeping street
A yellow beam still sweeps the bay
The kettle sighs, the floorboards creak
And evening leads me through the gray
Smell of rain on warm stones
Bring me home where autumn roams
Carry me where daylight goes
Keep me safe when evening blows
By morning, gulls have washed my face
Warm light settles in my cracks
The old boats move with quiet grace
And carve their wakes in salt-black tracks
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By dawn the ropes will slacken low
A gull will name the weather change
The old lamp pales, then lets me go
As chimney smoke begins to range
Smell of rain on warm stones
Bring me home where autumn roams
Carry me where daylight goes
Keep me safe when evening blows
The lamp goes out, the harbor sighs
A last warm rain beneath the gray
The keeper's song within me lies
And settles gently, there to stay
