Oscar Dawson - More Than Gold lyrics

[Foreword:] Maybe one day you will realise what this means to me Maybe you won't, but I know This is me from twelve till now My life has been put in these rhymes For almost as long as I can remember And this is it The moment I'll look back on as one of my greatest highs And all of you made this possible I couldn't thank you if I tried But let me try [Verse 1:] So here we are, years on, came good, found a second voice And made art out of personal reference points 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 Cos 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 hear me play And I'd make this sacrifice again For these precious few moments on stage [Hook:] I swear that this is worth more than soul 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 MC, MC, ohhhh [Verse 2:] I don't expect y'all to remember me When the dead leaves, fall from the evergreens When our summers end, our parts cross here might never come again It's the well warned fate of the music man Something like an admission or 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 cos the present don't last So, before I'm an old flame in your heart And these words fade as quick as the next song starts I made this for you to take, thanks for believing Just let me keep that, before the leave [Bridge:] With blood and sweat, we've teared and shed We grow, we age, we fade, we die We die, we die, we live forever [Hook:] This is worth more than soul 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 MC, MC, ohhhh This is worth more than soul 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 MC, MC, ohhhh [Verse 3:] 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 Longly at echo, years after the final scene Could never pay you what due, my brother So this is toast to what is, or it might have been