More Than Gold - Illy

So here we are

Years on, came good, found a second voice

And made art out of personal reference points

It’s scary, I check my songs

And it feels like so many of my best times gone

Guess I’m scared;

man, I’m so scared

'Cause I don’t know where this road ends, don’t know what lies there

And with age comes wisdom, lose some, win some

On my lonesome for this one, but still my

Heart beats with them;

bars, beats and rhythms

Take care of your memories, can’t relive them

When I wonder about my own worth

I just hope I splash some bright colours on a cold world

Through a life long career away

On the chance that, for a moment, you’d hear me play

And I’d make this sacrifice again

For these precious few moments on stage, I swear that

This is worth more than it’s sold to me

Worth more than these words to me

I need you to know

That is worth more than gold to me

Worth more than you’ll ever see

Ever see, oh

I don’t expect y’all to remember me

When the dead leaves fall from the evergreens

When our summers end, our paths cross here, it might never come again

It’s that well worn fate of the music man

Something like an admission of mortality

That old foe times like gravity

Can’t beat it, only hope to look back happily

And say «If I had mine back, I’d do it all again»

Yep, every misstep and regret

That I’ve grown to accept, whatever comes next

I commit you my future, give you my past

Gift you these words 'cause the present don’t last

So before I’m an old flame in your heart

And my words fade as quick as the next song starts

I made this for you to take, thanks for believing

Just let me keep that, we’ll call it even

With blood and sweat, with

We grow, we age, fade and die

We die, we die

We live

This is worth more than it’s sold to me

Worth more than these words to me

I need you to know

That is worth more than gold to me

Worth more than you’ll ever see

Ever see, oh

This is worth more than it’s sold to me

Worth more than these words to me

I need you to know

That is worth more than gold to me

Worth more than you’ll ever see

Ever see, oh

And it’s sad, but to start something new

I had to wave part of my life goodbye

So these the first steps of Illy’s ONETWO

And this the last roar of Phrase’s Crooked Eye

So this one’s for you, my brother

Long way it echo, years after the final scene

Could never pay you what due, my brother

So this is a toast to what is and what might’ve been