Track Insight / Lyrics
Night grill hums with bacon perfume
Pilot enters, wiping his boots clean
He orders black, no sugar, no cream
Checks his watch, a precise routine
Map spread wide on a vinyl booth top
Pine forest edge where the signals stop
Thumb traces poles through the static fuzz
Calculating lift with a mechanic's buzz
Thruster check at the pine tree line
Telephone poles hum telegraph time
He sips the dark, plans his climb
Wingtip coffee fuels the rhyme
Regulars stare from counter stools
Watching a man who breaks normal rules
Grease stains fingers on flight plan paper
Calculating vectors, altitude caper
Thruster check at the pine tree line
Telephone poles hum telegraph time
He sips the dark, plans his climb
Wingtip coffee fuels the rhyme
Steel birds rest on the telephone wire
Pilot calculates lift and fire
Coffee cools in a chipped white mug
Dawn breaks slow as a pulled plug
Propeller coughs in the morning cold
Story of a thousand flights told
Wingtips clip the pine scent air
Regulars nod, unaware
He pays the tab with a wrinkled bill
Leaves a tip on the windowsill
Boots hit gravel, the engine roars
Pine poles fade behind hangar doors
Thruster check at the pine tree line
Telephone poles hum telegraph time
He sips the dark, plans his climb
Wingtip coffee fuels the rhyme
Thruster check at the pine tree line
Telephone poles hum telegraph time
He sips the dark, plans his climb
Wingtip coffee fuels the rhyme
Wingtip coffee fuels the rhyme
Harpsichord fades like exhaust trail
Fiddle lingers on the final rail
