Gold between the pieces

Verse 1

I hit the floor in slow motion

A thousand stars across the tile

Careful hands stepped all around me

Like I'd been gone a little while

They said, "Sweep it up, it's over."

Like broken means there's nothing left.

But somewhere in the silence...

A spark escaped my chest.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe endings wear disguises

Maybe falling has a plan

Maybe every shattered heartbeat

Is becoming who I am

(Build begins—pads, percussion, riser)

Chorus

Gold between the pieces

Burning through every crack

It was always there inside me...

The breaking let it shine

I don't shine because you broke me

You only cracked the shell

The gold was always in me...

I just couldn't tell

Gold between the pieces

Now I finally see

You never made me golden...

You just revealed me.

(EDM drop with "Gold between the pieces..." repeated in layered harmonies.)

Verse 2

I spent years chasing perfection

Trying to hide each little scar

Never knowing every fracture

Was pointing to my heart

Funny how the deepest breaking

Couldn't steal what made me whole

It only pulled back every layer

Until it found the gold

Pre-Chorus

I quit searching for the old me

Stopped wishing I'd never fall

Turns out what I thought was ending

Wasn't ending after all

Bridge (everything strips away)

You thought I was falling apart...

I was falling into who I'd always be.

You never wrote my story.

You never owned my light.

You were only the moment

The cracks met what was already inside.

You didn't make me precious.

You didn't make me strong.

You only broke the surface...

The gold was there all along.

(Silence... heartbeat... then the drop returns.)

Final Chorus

Gold between the pieces

Burning through every crack

It was always there inside me...

The breaking let it shine

I don't shine because you broke me

You only cracked the shell

The gold was always in me...

I just couldn't tell

Gold between the pieces

Now the whole world sees

You never made me golden...

You just revealed me.

Gold between the pieces...

Gold between the pieces...

Outro (only piano and ambient synth)

You remember broken glass...

I remember finding gold.

(Whisper)

"...the gold was always there."