Ordinary Gold

Drop

Trade the days

Days for dollars

Verse 1

Phones screaming through the ice and the winter chill

She says she is alright

My mother is masking the deep rattling

Verse 3

I’m staring at the calendar and staring at the clock

Checking every roster while the shadows start to flock

It’s a race against the setting sun and I am losing pace

Caught between a paycheck and the look upon her face

Used to think that being busy meant that I was doing fine

But now I realize I’m just trading all her years for mine

They tell me that the grind is great they tell me keep it going

But they don’t see the river bank is slowly overflowing

My manager is calling up he’s asking for a double

I’m weighing out the overtime against a lifetime of the trouble

Of a phone that doesn’t answer or a kitchen chair that’s cold

Tryna grab the silver lining ‘fore the clouds take a hold

Pre-Chorus

So when the phone is ringing in the quiet of the night

I’m putting down the pen and I am walking toward the light

The ordinary moments yeah they used to pass me by

But now I’m looking closer with a clearer kind of eye

Chorus

All I want is time

Oh I just want some time

One day the chair by the window is empty

One day I will wish for an afternoon

Give me time

Give me time

Outro

No more shifts for a ghost

Trading days for dollars

Ordinary gold

Trade it all

Give me time

Just one more story

Before it’s gone

Give me time