Dust

Sometimes in my mind I spend time
Driving down the golden coast
Taking in a palm tree sunset
Reaching for the afterglow

I wanna chase it
Down the halls
Of my L.A. memory vault

Synthetic snow against a dark sky
Brings to mind a paradox
Like measuring the space between us
Making sense of what was lost

I wanna find you
Down the halls
Of my L.A. memory vault

"But to what purpose[?]
Disturbing the dust",
Opening a door that begs to stay shut

Cause every time I grasp for it, I can't feel it
And every time I run to catch the glitter it's gone
And I know one day this is all gonna crash down anyway
And I don't wanna get caught up in the dust
Will you?

Tattered journal entries from my youth
Document the siren songs
Document a million dreams deferred
And all the things that went wrong

All the paths we never took
Form the white spaces in our books
Well sometimes I still speculate, but
A "world of speculation"'s not for living in

Cause every time I grasp for it, I can't feel it
And every time I run to catch the glitter it's gone
And I know one day this is all gonna crash down

And every pretty thing I want is just a shadow
And every bent desire needs to be untangled
And I know one day this is all gonna crash down anyway
And I don't wanna get caught up in the dust

Cause every boardwalk
Vintage sports car
It's all returning back to the dust
Highways thrown into the sea, valleys filled up with debris
And when the dust clears
I hope we find each other there

Cause all this place can give me is a longing
And I'm not meant to spend a long time here
I'm not meant to ache for all eternity
I know where I'm headed's where I'm supposed to be

I won't be left in the dust
I won't be left in the dust