The song “Cream of Gold” was released in Pavement’s album Terror Twilight in 1999. The title of the song is much softer and brighter than many of the others on this album, which have a bitter and grungy interpretation, such as “Spit on a Stranger” or “The Hexx”. The 1990’s was known for the populari...
[Verse 1]
So much for destiny
A pinprick on my knee
The frost you paint across our dead affair
I sensed the toxic aura from the second we touched
You were stitched up venom and I was the cursed from the Vedic
[Chorus]
Time is a one-way track and I am not coming back
I dream in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
Time tired you're tainted through
Wins, songs and substitutes
I dream in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
[Verse 2]
The afterlife is steep
We wonder and retreat
And everyone is after us
Skirt the gone street hawkers with the black lemonade
Keep an arrow trained on their conflicted minds 'cause they stutter
[Chorus]
Time is the one-way track and I am not coming back
I dream in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
Time tired you're tainted through
Wins, songs and substitutes
I dream in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
I bleed in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
I bleed in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
I bleed in beige, why'd you leave me so far now?
I bleed in beige, why'd you leave me so far now!?
Cream of Gold was written by Stephen Malkmus.
Cream of Gold was produced by Nigel Godrich.
Pavement released Cream of Gold on Tue Jun 08 1999.