Rearview Gold: lyrics
- The gas tank is full and the window is down
- I’m leaving the bones of this quiet town
- The pines are just ink blots against the deep blue
- I’m trading the old life for something brand new
- The sun hits the glass in a trick of the light
- It’s painting the gravel and rust out of sight
- Rearview gold
- Distance makes the ruins shine
- Rearview gold
- But none of that beauty is mine
- It’s a long-distance glow in a frame on the door
- I don’t want to live in those hills anymore
- Rearview gold
- I’m leaving it all behind
- My hands on the wheel feel steady and strange
- Counting the miles as the radio claims
- That ghosts only follow if you look their way
- But I’m watching the orange turn into a grey
- It’s easy to love what you can’t touch no more
- With my foot pressed down hard to the floor
- Rearview gold
- Distance makes the ruins shine
- Rearview gold
- But none of that beauty is mine
- It’s a long-distance glow in a frame on the door
- I don’t want to live in those hills anymore
- Rearview gold
- I’m leaving it all behind
- If I turned the car, if I went back down
- The dust would be grey and the houses be brown
- It’s only the parting that gives it the grace
- Of a holy and wonderful place
- Rearview gold
- Distance makes the ruins shine
- Rearview gold
- But none of that beauty is mine
- It’s a long-distance glow in a frame on the door
- I don’t want to live in those hills anymore
- Rearview gold
- I’m leaving it all behind