[Verse 1] The road goes gold beyond the pines Cicadas keep their crooked time The windows down, the evening warm No need to name the coming storm [Pre-Chorus] I have carried every answer Like a stone beneath my tongue But the field is not a courtroom And the evening’s just begun [Chorus] August doesn’t ask me Who I had to be It lays the dusk across my shoulders And lets the silence breathe No one here to measure No one left to prove The cornfields darken round me And I have room to move [Verse 2] The old barns lean, the grasses rise A hawk turns circles through the sky The wolves can keep the farthest rows I do not have to follow where they go [Pre-Chorus] Let the road remember Every self that travelled through I am not the weight I carried I am only what is true [Chorus] August doesn’t ask me Who I had to be It lays the dusk across my shoulders And lets the silence breathe No one here to measure No one left to prove The cornfields darken round me And I have room to move [Bridge — nearly spoken] Let the wolves stay in the cornfield Let the ghosts keep to the road I have named enough of danger I can let the evening hold There is gold along the treeline There is breath beneath my skin I don’t need to force the threshold I can simply enter in [Final Chorus — layered but restrained] August doesn’t ask me Who I had to be It lays the dusk across my shoulders And lets the silence breathe No one here to measure No one left to prove The cornfields darken round me And I have room to move [Outro — solo close voice] The road goes gold beyond the pines August keeps no count of time
