Golden Rock — A monumental golden boulder glows beside a turquoise Merced irrigation river as an adult songwriter rests among poppies and reeds

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Golden Rock

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A mountainside refuge holds memories of rivers, wildlife, wine and a love that once seemed secure. Separation and wildfire disturb that remembered peace, yet the narrator keeps inviting his beloved home. Golden Rock becomes both a real-feeling landscape and the hoped-for place where loss can turn toward renewal.

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Recorded versions

2 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

Golden Rock

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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GOLDEN ROCK

Golden Rock on the mountainside
Hummingbirds and Butterflies
And and a sweet love song
A love that can't go wrong
There's a river down to the Bay
Ease on down and float away
To a brand new day
We can play along the way

Walk with me to Golden Rock
Silver Fox and red-tailed hawk
One old faded Valentine
A glass of dandelion wine
We can leave the world behind
This world is all inside your mind
Look inside what do you find
Golden Rock and bright sunshine

Run with me to Golden Rock
Climb with me up to the top
Shadows long at the end of day
Baby will you fly away
From the top of our Golden Rock
See the shepherd tend the flock
In a green valley far below
Way down where the River flows

Waterfalls and cool cascades
Granite walls and colonnades
Echoes of another time
When I was yours and you were mine
Then one day you went away
I got lost along the way
Storm-tossed like a castaway
Sad goodbye on a moonlight Bay

Then there came another night
Sparks a-risin’, firelight
Lost horizon, gone away
Wildfires and Shadow play
Burning oak and churning smoke
Fireflies, and bullfrogs croak
I see you in the fire ring
Baby, won't you wear my ring

Come back home to Golden Rock
Time to roll away the stone
Break the code and pick the lock
Time for us to all go home
When at last night is done
We stand before the rising Sun
Bell tower, ticking clock
Feel the power of Golden Rock
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