Track Insight / Lyrics
You cross the pier in borrowed leather
Salt bends around your careful tread
One lit window trembles water
And catches blue around your head
Watch the water take your traces
Till no shape is left in spaces
I still walk where your shoes went gliding
Through the puddles, your warmth abiding
The rain taps code on rusted railing
Your careful shoes leave prints to follow
But every falling drop is claiming
Each little proof beneath the hollow
Watch the water take your traces
Till no shape is left in spaces
I still walk where your shoes went gliding
Through the puddles, your warmth abiding
Your heel prints darken, blur, then scatter
Like crescent moons beneath the tide
The rain strikes softly, loosening letters
Till blank boards greet the rising light
Watch the water take your traces
Till no shape is left in spaces
I still walk where your shoes went gliding
Through the puddles, your warmth abiding
Quiet now, the felt keys are breathing
One raindrop circles on the boards
Your last clean outline keeps leaving
Every empty doorway holds no doors
I lean where iron parts the timber
I kneel where both your shoes have landed
A lantern shivers in the chamber
Two wet shadows creep and widen
Watch the water take your traces
Till no shape is left in spaces
I still walk where your shoes went gliding
Through the puddles, your warmth abiding
The bell above the harbor keeps swinging
A buoy coughs beneath the rainy planks
Your measure melts beyond the ringing
While silver threads divide my hands
Watch the water take your traces
Till no shape is left in spaces
I still walk where your shoes went gliding
Through the puddles, your warmth abiding
Walk until the rain softens
Let the tide erase your name
Footprints fade like buried embers
Only held hands outlive the frame