Gold Rush

How could I be the last to know

When they told me where the fool had gone

Oh I was but the youngest one

Up there on the hills they're climbing on

You went up with an open heart

When they found you it was all but cold

Those hounds, they sing so low

Up there on the hills, they're climbing on



You saw the light of gold and rushed

You said you couldn't fight it off

This is the story of the one you lost

And I want it to run over your love



You found it in the deepest thorns

Flooded up from the darkest wells

Ring your heartstrings with the bells

Up there on the hills they're climbing on

And if I hadn't drowned up there

Then the night before the storm took hold

I know I would find them gold

Up there on the hills they find me on



Another sight of gold, you rushed

"Oh I could never fight them off."

Another story of the one you lost

And I want it to run over your love



In the darkest of days, in my daydreams there -

In your eyes they find you ringing out

Where, in the eye of that tempest, you're nearer to me -

In your eyes, the see you singing out

Twenty-one years, you've been here, every morning -

In your eyes, the find you fading

Twenty-one roses you hold, but they're fading now -

In your eyes, I'm still there waiting



How could I be the last to know

When they told me where the fool had gone?

Oh I was but the youngest one

Up there on the hills they'll find me on



Another sight of gold, you rushed

"Oh I could never fight them off."

Another story of the one you lost

And I want it to run over

I wanted to take over

I want it to run over your love