Gold dust youth

I sold my name for a neon crown

Chased every spark till it burned me down

The city’s veins hum with greed and fire

I fed the beast and called it desire

The lights are gold, but they don’t forgive

They take your sleep, then charge you to live

I was seventeen, with a god complex

Now I’m older, and outta breath

I lost myself in the silver rain

Drowned in dreams I can’t explain

Every dollar was a piece of youth

Every lie just became my truth

Now I’m gold dust, fading slow

Building kingdoms out of what I sold

I keep my heart in a wallet fold

Every friend I had turned into gold

The mirror smiles, but it looks through me

Even my shadow don’t believe

I prayed to work, I slept to schemes

Turned love into another thing I bleed

All that glitters fills the void

‘Til you can’t tell what you destroyed

I lost myself in the silver rain

Drowned in dreams I can’t explain

Every dollar was a piece of youth

Every lie just became my truth

Now I’m gold dust, fading slow

Building kingdoms out of what I sold

I don’t need your pity or your peace

Just light me up and let me cease

The faster I run, the less I feel

Maybe the chase was always real

(guitar solo – emotional, climbing like regret itself, fading into ambient hum)

I lost myself in the silver rain

Drowned in dreams I can’t reclaim

Every win just cut me loose

I bought my cage, I burned my roots

Now I’m gold dust, nothing left to prove

Just another ghost with something to lose

*(outro – whispered echo: “gold dust youth… gold dust truth…”)