Fading Away - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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 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