Lyrics to
Fading Away

This version of Fading Away was released by James Taylor in 1974.

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When I’ve got something to say, well, don’t I always let you know?
So that you and I can go my way together.
And if I get carried away, well, I could be sailing on a song
and maybe we could carry on forever.

But lately this old dog has been chasing his tail round and round and round.
And the circles in my mind, they have been winding slowly down.
Everybody’s breezing up but I’m seizing up, I’m freezing up and I’m fading away.

I’ve got a hold on a night in June, I’ve got room for you and me.
I’ve got moonlight up in the trees, I’ve got sixty-eight degrees.
I’ve got nothing on my mind but I’ve got loving in my heart,
And I’ve got something out in the garden I want to show you.
Well, it really doesn’t matter after all if we quit this round about
and no one will really notice if we can just sit this next one out.
You can strike up the band without me, you may have your doubts about me,
But I’m just fading away.
You can hardly even see me because I’m fading away.

Well, it’s hard to find a label for this feeling in my bones.
That this is all a make-believe but my cards are on the table
and there ain’t nothing up my sleeve.
And here I thought I was a thinking man but I’m a shrinking man, I’m sinking man,
I’m fading, fading away.

Well, it’s really not so bad to be fading away.
Come on along with me and we’ll go fading away.
You can hardly even hear me because I’m fading away.

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The lyrics to Fading Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Fading Away have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Fading Away by James Taylor. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Fading Away" means the words set to the music of Fading Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Fading Away and the lyrics to Fading Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fading Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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