Skin and Gold 9

Verse

Rooftop tiles still warm from the sun

Bare feet scraping on cracked concrete

Dust and smoke rise slow where you stand

Gold light bending through your hair

You turn to me like the night just started

Nobody's counting how late we stay

Pre-Chorus

Can't keep my hands out of the heat

Skin catching amber, skin turning gold

Every pulse that the drum keeps time for

Pulls us closer than I ever know

Chorus

Skin and gold under the low light sky

We don't leave until the stars go quiet by

Hands up high where the night air bends

Skin and gold till the dawn comes again

Verse 2

Water bottle cracked on the railing edge

Salt drying slow on your shoulder bone

Shadows stretch long across the courtyard floor

Every laugh rolls over like a low tide

You take my wrist, we sway like one movement

Nothing left to prove we're ever leaving

Pre-Chorus

Can't keep my hands out of the heat

Skin catching amber, skin turning gold

Every pulse that the drum keeps time for

Pulls us closer than I ever know

Chorus

Skin and gold under the low light sky

We don't leave until the stars go quiet by

Hands up high where the night air bends

Skin and gold till the dawn comes again

Bridge

Maybe the sun's not coming yet

Not for me, not for you, just us again

No clock ticking what this moment owes

Just your pulse against my palm like a river of amber and honey

Chorus

Skin and gold under the low light sky

We don't leave until the stars go quiet by

Hands up high where the night air bends

Skin and gold till the dawn comes again