“Gold” is the sixth track on Marina and the Diamonds' third studio album, Froot.
It was originally set to be digitally released on April 4th, 2015 as the sixth “Froot of the Month”. However, Marina posted the track on YouTube on March 10th, 2015.
[Verse 1]
You've got it in the palm of your hands (In your hands)
It's slipping through your fingers like sand (Like sand)
'Cause they don't understand who you are (Who you are)
Doesn't matter long as I am your star, star
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, I know that I need the gold
But what I love can't be bought or sold
[Chorus]
Don't think I want what I used to want
Don't think I need what I used to need
Don't think I want what I used to want
Don't think I see what I used to see
[Verse 2]
I've been waiting (Waiting), waiting for the penny to drop (To drop, to drop, to drop)
I've been working (Working), working to get back what I lost (I lost, I lost), I lost
But whatever happens, I'll be okay (I'll be okay)
'Cause fortune's running out of my veins, my veins (Uh-huh)
[Pre-Chorus]
You can't take away the Midas touch
So you better make way for a Greek gold rush
[Chorus]
Don't think I want what I used to want
Don't think I need what I used to need
Don't think I want what I used to want
Don't think I see what I used to see
[Post-Chorus]
In El Dorado, your gold
To Colorado, can't be bought or sold
[Bridge]
Now there's no moral to this story
But I can hear my freedom calling me
Calling me
[Chorus]
I don't care that everybody knows
I'm a million dollars in the hole
I don't care that everybody knows
Baby, I don't even want your gold
[Post-Chorus]
From El Dorado, your gold
To Colorado, can't be bought or sold
[Outro]
(Gold) Rush
(Gold) Rush
Free, free, free, free
Free, free
Free, I am free
Gold was written by MARINA.
Gold was produced by David Kosten & MARINA.
In a track-by-track interview about FROOT, Marina said about “Gold”:
I wrote this in Marksburg, in Germany, thank you very much. I was supporting Coldplay at the time and touring my album Electra Heart. I had the day off in this lovely countryside hotel and I was feeling very frustrated so I wrot...