Nothing Gold Can Stay (draft 1)

it's been forever since I've really written anything and followed through with it, but I would just like to say thank you to Kaitlyn for giving me the motivation to finish this

I was lost and hopeless then you came around
caught up in my problems, it's like you arrived just to solve them
we were like Bonni and Clyde, fearless kids without a care in the world
young and reckless, there was nothing stopping us
it felt like this was never gonna end
but I guess such unity was just too good to be
what happened to the days when we were everything?

[chorus]:
Reality welcomes me back with a punch in the face
the summer is over, but where are you?
I've come down from the highest high
and now here I am, I've hit the ground
I go to take on the world, but now I'm standing alone
So much for forever
I guess it's true what they say
that nothing gold can stay

Now the late nights and the good times start to get to me
how ever did I end up here? back where I began
as if everything we'd been through had only been a dream
I'll bring the chords if you bring the words
even though we try, we can't do this alone
although summer is over, I'm still here singing this verse
would it kill you to sing along?
for me?

[chorus]

and now again I stand alone in a crowded room
as we go our separate ways, as we take on the world, alone and far away
I still can't believe, as I sit here and just watch
watch the best thing I ever had fall apart before my eyes
I can't just let us slip away
and now we sit here awkwardly
like divorced people, without a trace of what we used to be
why did things need to end this way?
I'd kill if we could go back and live those days

[chorus]