Track Insight / Lyrics
White rim catches first pale light
Handle worn by decades of grip
Steam rose last at midnight tight
Now dust settles where coffee dripped
Mesa stretches flat and far
Horizon swallows asphalt whole
I chart no stars to guide my car
Just mile markers and no soul
White cup waiting on the shoulder
White cup waiting, growing older
Heat waves dance but you don't waver
Salt in glaze from some lost flavor
Knew every rock off Portland Head
Read swells before they broke the bow
Now I read the desert bed
And wonder where the time is now
Mesa stretches flat and far
Horizon swallows asphalt whole
I chart no stars to guide my car
Just mile markers and no soul
White cup waiting on the shoulder
White cup waiting, growing older
Heat waves dance but you don't waver
Salt in glaze from some lost flavor
Chip on the rim from eighty-three
Storm night when the Fresnel cracked
You held the coffee, held by me
Warmth against the freezing black
No foghorn sounds at three a.m.
No beam to sweep the water clean
Just engine heat and diode glow
And miles of nothing in between
White cup waiting on the shoulder
White cup waiting, growing older
Heat waves dance but you don't waver
Salt in glaze from some lost flavor
Pull the truck to where you rest
Lift you slow from baked clay floor
Sip the cold — it tastes like best
Like fog and brine and something more
White cup waiting on the shoulder
White cup waiting, growing older
Heat waves dance but you don't waver
Salt in glaze from some lost flavor
White cup waiting on the shoulder
White cup waiting, growing older
Steam rises in the cooling air
One last watch before I go