Track Insight / Lyrics
Creosote bush smells rain on the wind
Larrea tridentata drinks deep again
Trench coat weighs heavy on sandstone bench
Opuntia pads hold the sunset's clench
Roots trace fractures where water once ran
Patience measured in geologic span
Badge stays holstered, the file stays shut
Even the canyon learns when to cut
Xerophyte blues in the morning light
Stomata open to catch the night
Detective rests where the juniper grows
Slow as the sediment, nobody knows
Xerophyte blues, the case goes cold
Beauty survives in the dust we hold
Yucca brevifolia lifts spiked arms
Joshua trees guard the dry river farms
Footprint fossils in washed-out arroyo
Evidence buried where only winds blow
Roots trace fractures where water once ran
Patience measured in geologic span
Badge stays holstered, the file stays shut
Even the canyon learns when to cut
Xerophyte blues in the morning light
Stomata open to catch the night
Detective rests where the juniper grows
Slow as the sediment, nobody knows
Xerophyte blues, the case goes cold
Beauty survives in the dust we hold
Hammond swells warm through the rotary horn
Brass section muted on desert morn
Gibson hollowbody clean and precise
Each note a seed in the cracked soil slice
Xerophyte blues in the morning light
Stomata open to catch the night
Detective rests where the juniper grows
Slow as the sediment, nobody knows
Xerophyte blues, the case goes cold
Beauty survives in the dust we hold
Agave parryi blooms once then dies
Twenty years stored in a single rise
Trench coat folds neat on the warm basalt
Silence solves what the file vault
Xerophyte blues in the morning light
Stomata open to catch the night
Detective rests where the juniper grows
Slow as the sediment, nobody knows
Xerophyte blues, the case goes cold
Beauty survives in the dust we hold
Sun dips low past the canyon wall
Shadows stretch long, the heat starts to fall
Case notes decompose into humus and sand
Justice grows quiet in this dry land
Xerophyte blues in the morning light
Stomata open to catch the night
Detective rests where the juniper grows
Slow as the sediment, nobody knows
Xerophyte blues, the case goes cold
Beauty survives in the dust we hold
Xerophyte blues, let the record show
Roots hold water where none should flow
Xerophyte blues, the mesa knows
Slide fades slow on the final chord
Creosote breathes, the case restored
