The Fade Away

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We've been on a bunch of dates
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I weigh debates that this creates
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And hate that state of forced introspection
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We traded wit, we swapped some spit,
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You fingered me a little bit
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But we never really had a connection


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You did nothing wrong, I have no excuse
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Just my intuition telling me we shouldn't reproduce


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I know I have to end it
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But pretend to just suspend it
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By contending that I'm busy all week
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I let the foregone linger on
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Text back with an emoticon
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Withdraw from you by being oblique


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Inside I know my tactics just delay it
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But I'd do anything so I don't have to say it


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I'll draw this out forever like it's Vietnam
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Then one day I'll be gone like Bambi's mom Awww


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Cause there's the right thing to do
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Then there's what I'm gonna do
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There's so much I should say
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But instead... I do the fade away


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Now I'm fading like chalk on a sidewalk
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Or the polio virus after Jonas Salk
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Like a Jewish guy at Arby's on Yom Kippur
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The Whig party post Millard Fillmore


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The erection of a man on antidepressants
      G                                         C
The cast of Diff'rent Strokes after adolescence
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Reproductive rights below the Mason Dixon
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Native Americans after the barter systems


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Your thyroid gland after Hashimoto
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The family in the Back to the Future photo
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Yeah I fade away


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We say that men are asshole who don't communicate
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We revel in our victimhood and amplify our hate
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We find ways to be indignant like it's a sport
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Then dissect their malignance with the views we distort


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The way men break up may be sloppy and terse
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What they do is bad, but what we do is worse

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We pretend to ourselves it's the nice thing to do
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To let you down gently by just not fucking telling you
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And deep down we know it's the worst way to play it
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But we are what we have... huge pussies

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And women are hypocrites
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Especially ones in comedy bands
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We see your faults but not our own
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Then we wonder why we're all alone

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We fill you up with maybe's, excuses and stalls
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But like a baby in China... it's better to have balls

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Not the Good Wife type like Christine Baranski
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So I'll pull out and leave like I'm Roman Polanski

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Cause there's the right thing to do
                                F                   C
Then there's what I'm gonna do
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There's so much I should say
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But instead... I do the fade away

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Like Verbal Kint fading into Kaiser Soze
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The rights in Arizona for a guy named Jose
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Opportunities for a college grad
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The love between your mom and dad
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Gonna Peter out like a gay Cetera
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Iranian relations since the Regan era
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Black Nike sales after Heaven's Gate
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Summer Camp attendance at Penn State

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The name Adolph after World War Two
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Like Debbie Gibson's pop career, Out of the Blue
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Yeah I fade away
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Cause I don't wanna get to know you
                      G          C
I just want to blow you... off