Track Insight / Lyrics
I watched the wire walker pace the tile
His boots dust white on years of grime
The chimney pots lean in to catch his profile
The gutter sings the same old rhyme
Morning fog clings low to Mansard roofs
He checks his knot, he checks his line
The pigeons scatter, proving nothing proves
The Seine keeps time with heartbeat chime
Paris breathes beneath my riveted knees
I've held ten thousand drunks and dreams
The wire sings on borrowed breeze
Gravity collects its fee
He searches for a lost brass key
Between the tiles where moss grows green
No passenger rides fare for free
The closest views are rarely clean
Paris breathes beneath my riveted knees
I've held ten thousand drunks and dreams
The wire sings on borrowed breeze
Gravity collects its fee
The antenna twitches, catching static prayers
The satellite dish dreams of home
The worker wipes his palms on worn-out flares
The rooftops keep their secrets, cold as chrome
He finds the key beneath a cracked pot
A rusted box, a letter sealed
The terrace keeps what time forgot
The wire's tension stands revealed
Now evening paints the zinc in bruised gold
He clips his line, he walks away
The story's told, the story's old
Another fare, another day
Paris breathes beneath my riveted knees
I've held ten thousand drunks and dreams
The wire sings on borrowed breeze
Gravity collects its fee
Paris breathes beneath my riveted knees
Nothing falls but what I've seen
Zinc spine remembers
Zinc spine remembers
