[Verse 1]
I can't find the words to say
What I need to satiate
The weary that's been weighin' on my soul
Movin' in and movin' on
Makin' friends, then they're gone
Nobody's fault, it's just the way it goes
[Pre-Chorus]
The heaviness that's on the soul
Is also what keeps givin' hope
'Cause somethin' in me knows there's somethin' better
Yeah, somethin' in me knows there's somethin' better
[Chorus]
Breathe in
Don't hurry past the colors of the seasons
There's beauty in the tension that you're feelin'
It's the weight of the ebb and flow
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
Whoa
Oh
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
Whoa
Oh, yeah
[Verse 2]
Johnny said to Lucile
From his nineteen-sixties wooden pulpit
"Honey, we've been through the highs and lows (Oh)
Old and grey, few decades in
We took this life right on the chin
And to tell the truth, we'd do it all again (Oh)
Yeah, to tell the truth, we'd do it all again"
[Chorus]
Breathe in
Don't hurry past the colors of the seasons
There's beauty in the tension that you're feelin'
It's the weight of the ebb and flow
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
Whoa
Oh
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
Whoa
Whoa, yeah
[Bridge]
Go and make the autumn (Go and make)
Go and make the autumn (Go and make it)
Go and make the autumn gold
You can make the autumn (You can make it)
You can make the autumn (Yeah, you can make it)
You can make the autumn gold (You can make the autumn gold)
[Chorus]
Breathe in
Don't hurry past the colors of the seasons
There's beauty in the tension that you're feelin'
It's the weight of the ebb and flow
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
(Go and make the autumn) Oh
(Go and make the autumn) Oh
(Go and make the autumn)
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
(Go and make the autumn) Oh
(Go and make the autumn) Oh
(Go and make the autumn)
So take heart, 'cause that's what makes the autumn gold
Autumn Gold
Song Meaning
Terrian admits an inability to name what's actually wrong in "Autumn Gold" — "I can't find the words to say what I need to satiate the weary that's been weighin' on my soul" — and "movin' in and movin' on, makin' friends, then they're gone, nobody's fault, it's just the way it goes" names transience itself as the specific source of that weariness.
"The heaviness that's on the soul is also what keeps givin' hope, 'cause somethin' in me knows there's somethin' better" pairs two things not usually placed together, heaviness and hope, treating one as the source of the other rather than its opposite.
The chorus turns a season into instruction — "breathe in, don't hurry past the colors of the seasons, there's beauty in the tension that you're feelin'" — refusing to let the coming winter erase the value of autumn's own particular ache. "Johnny said to Lucile from his nineteen-sixties wooden pulpit" grounds the whole song in one old couple's specific testimony — "we've been through the highs and lows... and to tell the truth, we'd do it all again" — letting their retrospective peace answer the opening verse's unnamed weariness with lived evidence instead of a promise.