You Fade Away

Colored lights and clapboard

Cheap motels and starlight

Restaurants glow like a string of oiled pearls

As the smoke pours up through

Manholes in shimmering spirals

Curling up the walls

To rooms with rooftop views

Under the wings and

In the hollows little pockets

Filled with secrets

Oh yeah we run

Through the bridges and the tunnels

Throwing boots that catch on wires

We’re gonna run

So take these photographs

And just cut them into pieces

Til you landscapes become beautiful and wild

Take these one-night stands

And longtime disappointments

Turn them into bars of gold and vintage wine

I will change my name

Forget everything

Until the sun’s drawn in the water

And the copters circle low up above

Until the dream is just a dream

Of someone else’s fantasy life

(You fall away)

(You fall away)

(You fall away)

(You fall away)