Fading into Gold 2 4

Verse 1

Paperweight on your coffee table, a faint outline of you

Silver light where you were sitting, the chair still warm too

I brought the blanket we made together, folded up like a square

It's the same blue as the sky outside but it don't feel fair

Fourteen months and I'm holding onto nothing at all

Just this faded blanket that's losing its color, like it's trying to fall

And me trying to hold on while my hands keep letting go

We used to be the same gold every morning

Now your light is a memory that I'm slowly forgetting

The room still smells like you but I don't stay long enough

To see if the scent stays true or if it turns into nothing at all

You said that someday we would find our way back home

And now I'm left with just this worn-out blanket to call my own

Pre-Chorus

But maybe the reason why you left me here is because you wanted more than one thing to keep

Maybe it's not about losing what we had but finding something new that glows bright

Tell me what the sun looks like now when it sets over your eyes

Is it still orange or did it turn into something kind of white?

Chorus

Fading into gold, fading into gold

Watching you leave with an open door and a heart full of light

I'll hold onto nothing till the color comes back to my hands

And maybe someday you'll find your way back here where the sun turns orange in my palms

Fading into gold, we're not done yet

The same two hearts that beat like one, just wearing different colors on our skin

Verse 2

Your toothbrush still in the glass next to mine

I keep it there as a reminder of what's left behind

We used to talk about how someday I'd learn to fly

Now your smile is just a photograph that I try to hold onto till the end of time

You packed up your bookshelf, every single page gone

I kept the one with our names scribbled on the title page in silver pen

It's still yellowed from where you touched it and now I touch it like it's you

And for a second it feels real but only till my fingers pass through

Every time I look at that shelf it cuts me clean

But it also tells me what we made was never lost, just rearranged in some way

Pre-Chorus

Maybe the reason why you left me here is because you wanted more than one thing to keep

Maybe it's not about losing what we had but finding something new that glows bright

Tell me what the sun looks like now when it sets over your eyes

Is it still orange or did it turn into something kind of white?

Chorus

Fading into gold, fading into gold

Watching you leave with an open door and a heart full of light

I'll hold onto nothing till the color comes back to my hands

And maybe someday you'll find your way back here where the sun turns orange in my palms

Fading into gold, we're not done yet

The same two hearts that beat like one, just wearing different colors on our skin

Bridge

Maybe it's okay to let go of the thing we made

If only because it's what made me brave enough to try again