Fading Into Yesterday

Title: Fading Into Yesterday

(Verse 1)
Mama, take this weight from off my shoulders
It’s been too long, carrying this load
The mirror shows a man I hardly know now
Worn down by the miles on this endless road

(Chorus)
Fading into yesterday
All the dreams we threw away
Sing it soft, sing it slow
Till the pain don’t hurt no more
Fading into yesterday…
Just fading away

(Verse 2)
Knockin’ on the doors that never open
Voices in the dark, calling out my name
I gave it all, till there was nothing left to give
Now I’m standing here in the pouring rain

(Chorus)
Fading into yesterday
All the dreams we threw away
Sing it soft, sing it slow
Till the pain don’t hurt no more
Fading into yesterday…
Just fading away

(Bridge)
Live and die, love and cry
Watch the years go rolling by
Every scar upon my soul
Tells the story of the toll
And when the final curtain falls
I’ll hear that sweet voice call

(Guitar Solo – slow, weeping bends building into a soaring cry)

(Final Chorus – bigger, with full band and layered harmonies)
Fading into yesterday
All the dreams we threw away
Sing it louder one last time
Till we leave this world behind
Fading into yesterday…
Lord, I’m fading away

(Outro – soft, almost whispered over gentle acoustic strums)
Fading… into yesterday
Just fading… away