Fading Gold (version 2)

Verse

Gold leaves cling to the branch of our past

Your smile still glows in the frame at last

I hold it tight like a fragile trust

But daylight climbs through the blinds I must

Candle flickers on this empty floor

Every melody we used to hum now fades more

The room's gone quiet, not by design

Just the echoes of what we called love and time

Pre-Chorus

Then tell me now why it had to end

Was it something I said or something you didn't intend

Can we rewrite the final scene or just let go

Or will this silence be where our hearts decide to go

Chorus

We traded gold for copper and grey

Lost the fire but found a way

Not to forgive, not to forget

Just to learn to hold what's left of us yet

Fading gold in the autumn light

Leaves me here holding the other night

Your hand gone cold but your eyes still mine

Fading gold into this lonely time

Verse

Twilight climbs through the windowpane and fades

Every promise, every prayer we made

I stand alone where you used to stay

Every step back is just another way

The shadows learn what the light will find

They grow a little softer on the line

I let the gold go, not because it's old

Just 'cause I've come to understand we were never whole

Pre-Chorus

Then tell me now why it had to end

Was it something I said or something you didn't intend

Can we rewrite the final scene or just let go

Or will this silence be where our hearts decide to go

Chorus

We traded gold for copper and grey

Lost the fire but found a way

Not to forgive, not to forget

Just to learn to hold what's left of us yet

Fading gold in the autumn light

Leaves me here holding the other night

Your hand gone cold but your eyes still mine

Fading gold into this lonely time

Bridge

Maybe we weren't meant to shine like that

Maybe copper was the colour we were made for, not gold

I don't need it burning bright as a flame

Just quiet now, and knowing I'm okay

Chorus

We traded gold for copper and grey

Lost the fire but found a way

Not to forgive, not to forget

Just to learn to hold what's left of us yet

Fading gold in the autumn light

Leaves me here holding the other night

Your hand gone cold but your eyes still mine

Fading gold into this lonely time