[00:00.00]Mary Chapin Carpenter - Fading Away
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[00:38.37]You are fading away in pieces and parts
[00:44.81]Like old china and glass, in fragments and shards
[00:51.62]Moment by moment, a day at a time
[00:58.12]By the side of the road, in the dark of the night
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[01:04.58]You are leaving me here like the seasons will do
[01:10.68]Leaving nothing behind but I know it was you
[01:16.90]That walked where I walk now, that stood where I stand
[01:23.42]Some phantom performing a strange sleight of hand
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[01:30.07]And the places I see are returning once more
[01:36.41]To the places I knew them to be long before
[01:42.97]They merged with your laugh
[01:46.19]They locked with your eyes
[01:49.38]I have almost regained them,
[01:52.89]Along with my stride
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[02:01.74]You are turning to nothing like ash off a fire
[02:09.04]As it rises and floats up higher and higher
[02:15.55]As the flame slowly dies and the fire turns cold
[02:21.77]Like the color of sky the higher you go
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[02:28.14]And the world that I see is returning once more
[02:34.39]To the world that I knew it be long before
[02:40.23]It had merged with your laugh
[02:44.21]It had locked with your eyes
[02:47.76]I''ve been letting it go, with all my goodbyes
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[03:45.33]You are blurring like memory and falling like dust
[03:51.81]On old wedding bouquets, the roses and rust
[03:57.64]On the wheel, on the mantle,
[04:01.73]In the quiet of day
[04:04.68]You are vanishing slowly
[04:07.87]You are fading away
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