First Aid Kit - Stay Gold Album Lyrics

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My Silver Lining

I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers
Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter
I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow
Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no I've got to go
There's no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on
And you've just gotta keep on keeping on
Gotta keep on going, looking straight out on the road
Can't worry 'bout what's behind you or what's coming for you further up the road
I try not to hold on to what is gone, I try to do right what is wrong
I try to keep on keeping on
Yeah I just keep on keeping on

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I've woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the moon
Having no idea who or what or where I am
Something good comes with the bad
A song's never just sad
There's hope, there's a silver lining
Show me my silver lining
Show me my silver lining

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I won't take the easy road
The easy road, the easy road

Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on

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Master Pretender

Never thought that I was weak
Always thought I could get hurt pretty bad
Still get up on my own two feet

I always believed that I was free
That I had some sense of integrity
That would rise above whatever tried to change me

But honey, now I won't wait
For something to bring me round and smile
'Cause that only stock for a while
Then I'm back again

Oh, I'm a master pretender

I always knew that I was young
But with a head held high and a shotgun
I could fool almost anyone

I never expected to be struck
By the fatal hands of fortune or by sheer bad luck

Now we won't change
And memories just rearrange
And fall into place
So I'm back again

Oh, I'm a master pretender

All the streets of new york city
Sure look pretty from way up here
And I was headed home, just found more alone
The further I'd go

I always thought that you'd be here
But shit gets f*cked up and people just disappear

So honey, now, don't be mad
Time has told me it can't be that bad
And if it is, well, big goddamn but I'll stick around

I'll be your master defender
Yeah, I'll stick around
I'll be your master defender

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Stay Gold

The sun shone high those few summer days
Left us in a song, wide-eyed haze
It shone like gold
It shone like gold

But just as the moon it shines straight
So dawn goes down today
No gold can stay
No gold can stay

What if a heart gives in despair?
What if the road won't take me there?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold

What if to love and be loved is not enough?
What if I fall and can't bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold
We could stay gold

We're on our way through rugged land
Top of that mountain we wanted to stand
With hearts of gold
With hearts of gold

But there is only forward, no other way
Tomorrow was your whole bad at the end of the day
And gold turns gray
And gold turns gray

What if a heart gives in despair?
What if the road won't take me there?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold

What if to love and be loved is not enough?
What if I fall and can't bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold
We could stay gold

All of my dreams, they fall and form a bridge
Of memories where I can't get back
All of my dreams, they fall and form a bridge
Of memories where I can't get back
To you

What if a heart gives in despair?
What if the road won't take me there?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold

What if to love and be loved is not enough?
What if I fall and can't bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold
We could stay gold

Could stay gold
Stay gold

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Cedar Lane

Rose after rose of passenger place
Headed out again, running all in vain
Motel blues, only bad news
I'm never looking for you
You'll find me all the same

I lay awake at night envisioning
A trace from the past
This heavy heart of mine, it never fails
To bring me right back

Now I see us walking down Cedar Lane
Slowing, the sunshine passed in the rain
Tremble so swiftly all of those days
I still remember how you used to say
"Something good will come out of this"

Coast after coast, cities and states
My world's an empty map where nothing remains
The place we belong is quietly gone
While we were making plans, it drifted away

I lay awake at night envisioning
A trace from the past
This heavy heart of mine, it never fails
To bring me right back

Now I see us walking down Cedar Lane
Slowing, the sunshine passed in the rain
Tremble so swiftly all of those days
I still remember how you used to say
"Something good will come out of this"

Something good will come out of this

How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?
How could I break away from you?

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Shattered & Hollow

I am in love and I am lost
But I'd rather be
Broken than empty
Oh, I'd rather be
Shattered than hollow
Oh, I'd rather be
By your side

Now I can't believe that it's been five years
Since we both stood here, looking out at this city
With minds so bold and hearts so clear
We said, we are going to get out of here
We said, we are going to get out of here

We are going to get out of here
Run from all the fears
Follow what we once held dear
When will we get out of here?

Now I am tired but resolute
That I'd rather be
Striving than settled
Oh, I'd rather be
Moving than static
Oh, I'd rather be
By your side

Now I can't believe that it will be so long
Till we both are here, looking out at this city
Knowing all we ever wanted is gone

We are going to get out of here
Run from all the fears
Follow what we once held dear
When will we get out of here?

Time, time is a fickle thing
Let's see what it can bring
I cannot leave you behind
Time, time's running out
My hands, oh give me your hands
I cannot leave you behind

We are going to get out of here
Run from all the fears
Follow what we once held dear
When will we get out of here?

We said, we are going to get out of here
We said, we are going to get out of here

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The Bell

Don't place your bets on me
I'm tired and I'm only
With nothing to offer you
Nothing to offer you

The pavement stares gray and cold
Our lives are a story told
Coming to an ending
It's coming to an ending

How could I turn around?
Face the sound of the bell that shines?
Ring it out, trim it out
To drag me back down

But I'm not coming home

Been out here for so long
The road just stretches on
Till I stop pretending
Till I stop pretending

But the world is an empty frame
And now you are just a name
I'll keep it that way
It's staying that way

How could I turn around?
Face the sound of the bell that shines?
Ring it out, trim it out
To drag me back down

But I'm not coming home

I tried hard to be brave
I tried hard not to be afraid
But trying wasn't enough

I tried hard to be brave
I tried hard not to be afraid
But trying wasn't enough

I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Can you hear the bell?
Can you hear the bell?
The bell, the bell

Can you hear the bell?
Can you hear the bell?
The bell, the bell

From the rust that lies deep in it's throat
I hear solemn tones
The danger, the absent floors
In the silence of night he lets me know

That I'm not coming home

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Waitress Song

I could move to a small town
And become a waitress
Say my name was stacy
And I was figuring things out

See, my baby, he left me
And I don't feel like staying here tonight

I remember sleepless nights
I remember chicago
I remember the music
From the downstairs bar

Girls, they just want to have fun
And the rest of us hardly know who we are

It's a dark, twisted road we are on
And we are to walk it alone

I could join the circus
When they come to town
Me and the freaks, the tamers
And that old sad clown

I'd walk across that tight rope
Head held high
So close to death
I'd never fell nor lie

You know, it's a dark, twisted road we are on
And we are to walk it alone

I could drive out to the ocean
And just stare in awe
I could walk across the beaches
And sleep under the stars

Our love would seem trivial and obscure
Now and never feel lost anymore

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Fleeting One

Now, I see winter's dawn
The wind turns traitor cold
Seems long since summer time
And the stories that were told

We spoke of dreams that came to us
When we were young
But as the morning rose
We spoke with forked tongues

My love is a fleeting one
My man could be anyone
And our love is a setting sun

As we took those evening walks
Down through the graveyard
Those names engraved always
Put a new shade to my thoughts

But he and I, we both knew
The bread that we break
Would never take their place
What's cold, you mustn't await

My life is a fleeting one
My work is just a web I've spun
Oh, my life is a setting sun

I don't know where I'm going
But no one is coming with me
I won't give up chasing love, son
Here I go, look at me run
Here I go
Look at me run
Here I go
Look at me run

My love is a fleeting one
My man could be anyone
And our love is a setting sun

My life is a fleeting one
My work is just a web I've spun
Oh, my life is a setting sun

Baffled by the lies we blamed
We met the end too soon
I was honest when I told you
We're as cryptic as the moon

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Heaven Knows

You've spent a year staring into a mirror
Another one trying to figure out what you saw
Paid so much attention to what you're not
You have no idea who you are

But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying

Now I can hear every word you're saying
I'm just not sure I want to know
You can play the fool and still follow the rules
If you seem like you care or you're good

But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying

You've lost yourself in others'
Expectations of you
Now you prefer this caricature before being true
But you're better than that
You're so much better than that
I know you better than that

Now baby, tell me, what's your story?
Do you think it'll ever sell?
And what'll you do if it comes down to it?
If it all goes straight to hell?

But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying
Heaven knows, heaven knows
Heaven knows
Heaven knows, heaven knows
Heaven knows that you're lying

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A Long Time Ago

I fell in love with you
Long before I knew
What it meant to give everything
I was a rolling stone
Rolling my way along
Till you came
And made sense out of everything

But you couldn't wait
I couldn't promise you anything
If it was all a mistake
Then I guess we're both to blame

I could've been
So many things
But it would never be enough for you
I was the one
You counted all
But I was never good one for you
Now I know
I lost you a long time ago

City of strangers
Out of danger
In your arms I was half awake, half a sleep
Grab a hold of what I've got
Regretting all that I am not
I couldn't be the one standing by your side
If it was all a mistake
Then I guess we are both to blame

I hold no grudges
I come bearing forgiveness
Only love
Even if it's not enough
Only love