(Verse 1)
You drip sunlight on the kitchen floor
We count the cracks like promises before
Your laugh is velvet, but your silence is stone
We build a home from whispers, then we leave it alone
(Pre-Chorus)
There’s a radio playing on a station of ghosts
It tells me your name in the things I can’t hold
I trace the outline of a future that’s sold
For the ache of tonight and a story grown old
(Chorus)
Love glows like slow gold in the corners of my mind
Warm and heavy, bright and resigned
I hold onto the burn when the night turns cold
We’re melting down to memory, slow gold
(Verse 2)
Your shoulders carve shadows into the bed
I speak in commas where endings should be said
We trade our warmth for the saving grace of sleep
Wake to the morning with a distance that keeps
(Pre-Chorus)
The coffee cools like the words we left unsaid
I fold our photos, press them to my chest instead
There’s a kind of mercy in the ache that won’t let go
When love is a language that we barely know
(Chorus)
Love glows like slow gold in the corners of my mind
Warm and heavy, bright and resigned
I hold onto the burn when the night turns cold
We’re melting down to memory, slow gold
(Bridge)
I watch you move like a storm that apologizes
Soft thunder, keeping score of all our small compromises
Despair sits quiet in the doorway, a patient friend
It knows every fracture, every time we pretend
(Breakdown — whispered)
Tell me the truth, even if it breaks me in two
Tell me your faith, tell me the parts I didn’t know were you
We’re two cups on the counter, still steaming, still whole
But the heat doesn’t fix the crack running through our soul
(Chorus — layered)
Love glows like slow gold in the corners of my mind
Warm and heavy, bright and resigned
I hold onto the burn when the night turns cold
We’re melting down to memory, slow gold
(Outro)
So leave one light on for the part of me that stays
I’ll leave a door open for the nights we can’t erase
If love is a currency that time keeps untold
I’ll spend my last breath on you — slow, soft, slow gold.
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