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