What Good Is Gold?
‘What Good is Gold?’ is an AI remake of the original song ‘What is Gold?’ song from 1984 – Tjook 2024
What Good is Gold? ( Lyrics 2024)
At the start of my path, I was searchin’ blind,
For blood from the roots I left behind.
Chasing down shadows, trace by trace,
Fate kept me movin’, …no backward race…
I’ve walked that road, felt the weight,
Crossed bridges sunken with truth untold.
In lands of shadows… love drifts apart,
‘Caught in the spell of my haunted heart.
What good is gold, what good is gold,
When the trees are dyin’ and rivers cryin’
What good is gold..
‘and what good is love –
Yeh.., ‘what good is love… can’t breathe…’; I can’t breathe!
You cast your stones and threw shade my way,
Buried the bridges under truth decay.
In The land of empty’… we can’t trust… cannot trust?
Love starts to fade… turns to dust.
I may never know, may never understand,
How to walk small in a trembling land?
Built on fear, stained by peers,
Courage fades… ‘yours ‘true’ lee disappears…
What good is gold, what good is gold!
When our roots are dyin’, ‘rivers are crying?
What good is gold, What good is love, Yeh, ‘what good is love?
‘ World turns gray – ‘starlight fade…
Bridge, whispered, layered vocals
Press your ear down close to the soil,
Feel her breath, her patient toil.
Like a child holds a mother’s hand,
Feel her heartbeat through in the quiet sand.
Let her fire rise, let it climb,
Spike our veins, up our roots’
What good is gold, what good is gold!
When the rivers are dry, and the soil grows cold?
And love, yeah, love, what good is love,
When green fades to gray, stars fade above?
Tell me, what good is gold, what good is gold,
When earth’s heartbeat fades, and our world grows old?
Chasin’ shadows, graspin’ for light,
Lost in the gold, blinded to fight.
Holdin’ on to dreams that slip to dust,
Earth waits patiently… dust to dust.
© Tjook 2024
What Is Gold?
Original from 1984, performed by Rhu-Barb – Tjook vocal, guitars and composition, Titus Smid base, and Dick Boshoff on drums
It was the start of the journey
That I never could find
And all of my family had become strangers
It was the fate in the space that I left behind
That never stopped me from keep on trying
Well yes I felt before how they blocked my way
Upon a bridge that lies under water
With cowardly love of cowardly people
From the cowardly lands and of cowardly cultures
They will never understand
living in a cowardly world
Filled with tears and full of careers
But what good is gold
Tell me what good is gold
When your trees are dying
And your rivers are crying
And love, what good is love
When your woods are dying
And your rivers are crying
Well press your head in the sand
of your motherly earth
Like a young boy is holding his mother
And warm your spine against her heart
that lies deep in the ground
Against her heart that is still on fire
And shake out those salty tears
And see if you're able to put out the fire
Until you will become no more than the
Sheets of an unslept bed
Way off from your rattled brain
That's flowing over in restless thought...
But what good is gold?
Tell me what good will do you gold?
When your trees are dying
And your rivers are crying
And therefore what good is love?
What good can do you love?
In a world with no desire
© Tjook 1984