Stay Gold

Standing outside of Dollar General

Another MLK Boulevard

Getting one more bag of dime store weed

To smoke in my backyard

Well, I'm so damn bored I could cut myself

Only four more hours to kill

Every day until my mom gets out

Of working at the mill

You gotta stay gold now, pony boy

Don't let 'em get you down

While the locals all work for coffee

Yeah, remember that you own this town

Not a soul is gonna listen

Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

In a world so black and white, boy

Stay go-o-old

Oh-oh-oh

Go-o-old

Go-o-old

We went by the Marietta train tracks

Where your sister lost her days

Traded a dirty magazine

To the pinball guy for plays

I remember you always saying

If you ever get out alive

Yeah, then you quit using and you get married

To that girl on page twenty-five, yeah

You gotta stay gold now, pony boy

Don't let 'em get you down

While the locals all work for taxes

Yeah, remember that you own this town

Not a soul is gonna listen

Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

Ooh, in a world so black and white, boy

Stay go-o-old

Oh-oh-oh

Stay go-o-old

Go-o-old

You gotta stay gold now, pony boy

Don't let 'em get you down

While the locals all work for taxes

Yeah, remember that you own this town

Not a soul is gonna hear you

Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

Ooh, in a world so black and white, boy

Stay go-o-old

Oh-oh-oh

Stay go-o-old

Oh-oh-oh