Stay Gold

by Johanna Söderberg

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

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

What if a hard work ends in despair?
What if the road won't take me there?
I wish, for once, it could stay gold
What if to love and be loved is not enough?
What if I fall and can't bear to get up?
I wish, for once, it could stay gold

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

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

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