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Fading Away
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Fading Away was released on January 1, 2012 by Rounder Records as a part of the album Ashes and Roses
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Release DateJanuary 1, 2012
LabelRounder Records
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM74

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Acoustic Guitar
Duke Levine
Duke Levine
Electric Guitar
Glenn Worf
Glenn Worf
Bass
Matt Rollings
Matt Rollings
Piano
Russ Kunkel
Russ Kunkel
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Composer

Lyrics

You are fading away in pieces and parts
Like old china and glass, in fragments and shards
Moment by moment, a day at a time
By the side of the road, in the dark of the night
You are leaving me here like the seasons will do
Leaving nothing behind but I know it was you
That walked where I walk now, that stood where I stand
Some phantom performing a strange sleight of hand
And the places I see are returning once more
To the places I knew them to be long before
They merged with your laugh
They locked with your eyes
I have almost regained them
Along with my stride
You are turning to nothing like ash off a fire
As it rises and floats up higher and higher
As the flame slowly dies and the fire turns cold
Like the color of sky the higher you go
And the world that I see is returning once more
To the world that I knew it to be long before
It had merged with your laugh
It had locked with your eyes
I've been letting it go
With all my goodbyes
You are blurring like memory and falling like dust
On old wedding bouquets, the roses and rust
On the wheel, on the mantle, in the quiet of day
You are vanishing slowly, you are fading away
Written by: Mary Chapin Carpenter
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