Fading Away-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:39.65]You are fading away in pieces and parts [00:41.48] [00:45.51]Like old china and glass, in fragments and shards [00:52.38]Moment by moment, a day at a time [00:59.88]By the side of the road, in the dark of the night [01:03.45] [01:04.69]You are leaving me here like the seasons will do [01:10.45] [01:13.01]Leaving nothing behind but I know it was you [01:16.45] [01:17.76]That walked where I walk now, that stood where I stand [01:22.01] [01:24.14]Some phantom performing a strange sleight of hand [01:28.89] [01:30.51]And the places I see are returning once more [01:35.14] [01:37.01]To the places I knew them to be long before [01:41.57] [01:43.89]They merged with your laugh [01:45.58] [01:46.57]They locked with your eyes [01:48.76] [01:50.20]I have almost regained them, [01:52.70] [01:54.20]Along with my stride [01:55.76] [02:03.03]You are turning to nothing like ash off a fire [02:06.79] [02:09.23]As it rises and floats up higher and higher [02:13.85] [02:16.04]As the flame slowly dies and the fire turns cold [02:20.79] [02:23.30]Like the color of sky the higher you go [02:26.92] [02:28.48]And the world that I see is returning once more [02:33.11] [02:34.98]To the world that I knew it be long before [02:40.42] [02:42.05]It had merged with your laugh [02:43.73] [02:45.23]It had locked with your eyes [02:47.42] [02:48.42]I've been letting it go, with all my goodbyes [02:53.61] [03:45.55]You are blurring like memory and falling like dust [03:50.92] [03:53.05]On old wedding bouquets, the roses and rust [03:57.04] [03:58.55]On the wheel, on the mantle, [04:02.05]In the quiet of day [04:05.30]You are vanishing slowly [04:08.17]You are fading away