Golden Age - Lyrics - Darden Smith

Darden Smith is an Austin-based singer-songwriter known for his lyrics and for weaving folk and Americana influences with rock, pop, and the musical roots of his home state. His debut album, "Native Soil," was released in 1986. His fourteenth album, Love Calling, came out August 27, 2013. Over the past decade, Smith has developed two programs, The Be An Artist Program and SongwritingWith . Both use collaborative songwriting to work with groups ranging from children in the classroom to soldiers returning home from combat. Smith established SongwritingWith:Soldiers as a separate non-profit organization in 2012. In a recent presentation for TEDxAustin called "Fearing Your Gift," Darden Smith discusses what led him to these projects and how, going forward, creativity is central to everything he does.

We’re living in the golden age of pain The golden age of pain There’s a wind blowing through my door And it’s never been this cold before It’s the golden age of pain I tell you that the golden age is here Everybody’s drowning on the tidal wave of tears And on the little ball in space Can’t nobody win a human race When the golden age is here We got to have love, we got to have peace We got to have trust out on the street, baby Until the broken hearts all mend How we ever gonna find the end Of the golden age of pain We’re living in the golden age of pain Rich man, poor man, beggar man it’s all the same Because the body don’t take the blow It’s the soul of a man that gets laid low In the golden age of pain We got to have love, we got to have peace We got to have trust out on the street, baby Until the broken hearts all mend How we ever gonna find the end Of the golden age of pain Until the broken hearts all mend How we ever gonna find the end Of the golden age of pain