Gold Glow

(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.