Gilded Fever

Verse

Solstice sun on the chrome-forged fields

Bronze skin bright where the tall wheat yields

We ran the ridge with our shields undone

Seventeen summers, chasing the sun

Torches burning where the runway ends

Steel and starlight, warriors and friends

Amber light on the visor's edge

We swore an oath on the river's edge

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the heat rise off the ground

Every heartbeat like a battle drum sound

Something wild in us refusing to rest

Chorus

We're burning young, we're burning gold

Gilded fever, wild and bold

Sunlit armor, skin like flame

Racing summer, no one tame

Running fields where the horizon burns

Gilded fever, this is our turn

Nothing ancient, nothing new

Gilded fever, me and you

Verse

Neon sigils drawn on our arms in ash

Engine hymns under a starship's flash

We climbed the tower where the old gods slept

Left our names in the vault we kept

Sunset bleeding through the visor cracks

Racing chariots down the sand-swept tracks

Sweat and static on our bare chests

Crowned in solstice, we pass every test

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the fire climb through our veins

Every summer we were never the same

Something ancient rising up in our chest

Chorus

We're burning young, we're burning gold

Gilded fever, wild and bold

Sunlit armor, skin like flame

Racing summer, no one tame

Running fields where the horizon burns

Gilded fever, this is our turn

Nothing ancient, nothing new

Gilded fever, me and you

Bridge

Years from now when the empire fades

When the chrome goes dark and the gold decays

I'll remember this, the wheat, the flame

Your name carved into the summer game

We were never meant to last forever

But we burned as one, gilded together

Chorus

We're burning young, we're burning gold

Gilded fever, wild and bold

Sunlit armor, skin like flame

Racing summer, no one tame

Running fields where the horizon burns

Gilded fever, this is our turn

Nothing ancient, nothing new

Gilded fever, me and you