Gold in My Veins

We were tight-knit boys, brothers in more than name.

You would kill for me, and knew that I'd do the same.

But nothing goes as planned; everything will break.

People say goodbye in their own special way.

"Everything goes away", but you're all I taste,

At night inside of my mouth.

Because you're in my veins, and I cannot get you out.

But you ran, 'cause I am not what you found.

All my life I've never known where you've been,

All that you rely on and all that you can save,

Goes away.

And I heard you say right when you left that day:

"Everything is dark, and it's more than I can take."

But then you catch a glimpse of sunlight shining,

Shining down on your face,

And I told you, you could blame me when there's no one else to blame,

But you couldn't say the same.

And it cut me sharp, hearing you'd gone away,

When all that you rely on, and all that you can fake,

Will leave you in the morning, to come and find you in the day.

They said you were the crooked kind and that you'd never have no worth,

But you were always gold to me.

So I'm going to be here until I'm nothing but bones in the ground,

So call whenever you're around,

And I'll quiet down.

"Everything will change because nothing stays the same."

There were holes in you, the kinds I could not mend,

And nobody here's perfect. Oh, but everyone's to blame

I am fine with where I am now; this home is home and all that I need

But for you, this place is shame.

But I cannot get you out,

No, I cannot get you.

We were opposites at birth, I was steady as a hammer,

But you're in my veins, and they'll know where I'll be,

Because we never saw New York and we ain't ever cross the sea,

But you were always gold to me.

I was there when you grew restless; left in the dead of night.

And I was there when three months later, you were standing in the door all beat and tired.

And I stepped aside.

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Always Gold - Radical Face

In My Veins - Andrew Belle