Fading Gold 4

Intro

Dust on the dashboard

Radio playing low

Verse

Gravel road and a map on fire

Sixteen counties in a year we spent on tire kickin' gravel in the dark

You had my name written backwards

In a marker that ran out before it got there

Pre-Chorus

Tell me why I'm still driving through this part of town

Where every stoplight feels like breaking through the clouds

Chorus

It's fading gold, it's fading fast

But we were young enough to see it last

Every goodbye turns into gold

Even when it's hard to hold onto cold

Verse

Now your number forward is a stranger's voice

Calling me from a number I don't own no more

I keep my hand out the window like it still smells of gasoline

And for a second, I forget that nothing stays

Pre-Chorus

Tell me why I'm still driving through this part of town

Where every stoplight feels like breaking through the clouds

Chorus

It's fading gold, it's fading fast

But we were young enough to see it last

Every goodbye turns into gold

Even when it's hard to hold onto cold

Bridge

Maybe gold ain't something you keep

It's just a color on a dashboard deep

So I'm turning up the radio one more time

This is the whole song before it ends

Before the station breaks and static takes its place

I'll drive this highway like it's the last one of my life

Chorus

It's fading gold, it's fading fast

But we were young enough to see it last

Every goodbye turns into gold

Even when it's hard to hold onto cold