Please Don't Fade Away

Verse 1

Used to keep a map of where I'd been

Every street name stitched inside my skin

Now the ink is running thin

I trace the lines and lose them all again

Faded photographs

Your laugh is going soft

I hold them to the light

But the colors keep on drifting off

Pre-Chorus

And I'm reaching for a name

It slips right through my hands

Like water through a sieve

Chorus

My memories are fading

Soft as autumn rain

My memories are fading

Can't call them back again

Fading

Fading

Warm and slow and sweet

Verse 2

I remember summertime on the porch

Your mother's voice humming soft and slow

Was it Sunday or a Tuesday morning

Did we laugh or did we cry

I can't recall the why

Just the feeling floating by

Sunday driving with the windows down

Was it you beside me then

The radio played something slow and grand

I hummed along and held your hand

Pre-Chorus

And I'm reaching for the tune

It slips right through my hands

Like water through a sieve

Chorus

My memories are fading

Soft as autumn rain

My memories are fading

Can't call them back again

Fading

Fading

Warm and slow and sweet

Bridge

Maybe they go somewhere

Some quiet place they keep

Maybe they come back to me

In the middle of my sleep

Chorus

My memories are fading

Soft as autumn rain

My memories are fading

Can't call them back again

Fading

Fading

Warm and slow and sweet

Outro

Fading

Fading

Warm and slow and sweet

Warm and slow and sweet