"Gold Rush" (stylized as "gold rush") is the third track from American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift's ninth studio album, evermore, released on December 11, 2020, through Republic Records.
Background[]
"gold rush", the third song on evermore, is a song depicting the jealousy she has because she is attracted to the same person everyone else is. Therefore, she has to stop picturing her life with them. She is singing about dreaming for someone that everybody else wants.
Swift has said about the track that it takes place inside a single daydream where you get lost in thoughts for a minute, then snap out of it.[1]
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
Gleaming
Twinkling
Eyes like sinking
Ships on waters so inviting
I almost jump in
[Chorus]
But I don't like a gold rush, gold rush
I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red flush
I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch
Everybody wants you
Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you
Walk past, quick brush
I don't like slow motion, double vision in rose blush
I don't like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush
Everybody wants you
But I don't like a gold rush
[Verse 1]
What must it be like to grow up that beautiful?
With your hair falling into place like dominoes
I see me padding across your wooden floors
With my Eagles T-shirt hanging from the door
[Refrain]
At dinner parties, I call you out on your contrarian shit
And the coastal town we wandered 'round had nеver seen a love as pure as it
And thеn it fades into the gray of my day-old tea
'Cause it could never be
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't like a gold rush, gold rush
I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red flush
I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch
Everybody wants you
Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you
Walk past, quick brush
I don't like slow motion, double vision in rose blush
I don't like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush
Everybody wants you
But I don't like a gold rush
[Verse 2]
What must it be like to grow up that beautiful?
With your hair falling into place like dominoes
My mind turns your life into folklore
I can't dare to dream about you anymore
[Refrain]
At dinner parties, I won't call you out on your contrarian shit
And the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it
'Cause it fades into the gray of my day-old tea
'Cause it will never be
[Outro]
Gleaming
Twinkling
Eyes like sinking
Ships on waters so inviting
I almost jump in
Live performances[]
"Gold Rush" was performed as a surprise song on The Eras Tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 12, 2023. It made another appearance as a surprise song on March 8, 2024, as part of a mashup with "Sparks Fly".
Trivia[]
- This is Antonoff's favorite song of the album.[2]
- Swift has used “gold” to describe her relationship with Joe Alwyn on several songs, including 2017’s “End Game” and 2019’s “Daylight.”
References[]
| evermore | ||
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| "willow" • "champagne problems" • "gold rush" • "'tis the damn season" • "tolerate it" • "no body, no crime" • "happiness" • "dorothea" • "coney island" • "ivy" • "cowboy like me" • "long story short" • "marjorie" • "closure" • "evermore" | ||
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