Close to midnight arrive home
After afternoon shift
Hands coppered green (despite gloves)
Smelling of metal, metallic mouth.
Wash it all away & feel brand new.
Onto the porch,
River & plains stretching below night sky.
Everyone’s asleep.
Sit, watch, listen
Melt into the night.
The silence, solitude, tranquility
Touched with beautiful melancholy.
Extra:
This wasn’t written back then but expresses the feeling of those nights after finishing work at Crane Enfield. The song was written by Jimmy Webb but this instrumental version from Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden is the one for me.
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