Rust and Gold 5

Intro

Old map, creased and torn

Verse

Dusty boots on gravel road

Headlights flicker through the fog

Same bend where the bridge used to cross

Now the water's holding stones

Chorus

Rust and gold on everything I left behind

Rust and gold on my hands like they're made of time

I'm still moving, slower than I want to go

This is how the whole town looks as it lets me go

Verse

Porch light humming, paint chipped off the rail

Radio static turns into a hymn

The mirror at the diner shows me thin

But every face that passes waves like nothing's changed

Pre-Chorus

So I drive this road one more time through

To see if silence was always gold in you

Chorus

Rust and gold on everything I left behind

Rust and gold on my hands like they're made of time

I'm still moving, slower than I want to go

This is how the whole town looks as it lets me go

Bridge

Maybe leaving wasn't losing at all

It's just the water finding its own fall

Every ending holds a current deep

Carrying everything that I keep

Chorus

Rust and gold on everything I left behind

Rust and gold on my hands like they're made of time

I'm still moving, slower than I want to go

This is how the whole town looks as it lets me go

Outro

Fading out past Willow Creek

Into something soft and clean