Track Insight / Lyrics
I'm standing at the edge of Medano Creek
Telegraph posts in a straight line to the pines
Rifles hanging heavy by the camps
A boy's life laid to rest, dreams gone to the wind
The wirebird's song echoes in my mind
Dad's laughter, smoke on the horizon lines
Winter's here, the world got cold
No place for a sailor, growing old
Oh, I'm sittin' on a fencepost, lookin' at the sky
The wirebird's call reminds me of my life
Traded the ocean's roar for pine needles' hush
Now I'm just a shadow, waiting for the rush
Snowflakes blanket the field of golden grass
A heron stalks the shallows, black-feathered, calm as glass
I remember the smell of tar and old ropes
The creak of the ship's boards, waves crashing the cope
The wirebird's song echoes in my mind
Mom's stories of the sea, the world I left behind
Fading light on cypress trees
Just another hitch, that's what she'd decree
Oh, I'm sittin' on a fencepost, lookin' at the sky
The wirebird's call reminds me of my life
Traded the ocean's roar for pine needles' hush
Now I'm just a shadow, waiting for the rush
A warm firelight on a mountain slope
The stars blurred by the pine studio
Life's a curious thing, some folks can't sail
Built for the horizon, but the land prevails
The wirebird's song echoes in my mind
Dad's stories of far-off lands, the journeys left behind
Fish leaping, birds flying, the world alive
Just one more sunset, that's all I need to survive
Oh, I'm sittin' on a fencepost, lookin' at the sky
The wirebird's call reminds me of my life
Traded the ocean's roar for pine needles' hush
Now I'm just a shadow, waiting for the rush
I'll keep listening, for the wirebird's refrain
A sailor's heart, still drifting, lost in the plain
Where the wild things roam, and the land meets the sea
Perhaps someday, back to the ocean I'll be.
