The Fade Away Chords & Tabs
Figured Out On Ukulele, Same On Guitar
Capo 1st Fret
C
We've been on a bunch of dates
G
I weigh debates that this creates
F G
And hate that state of forced introspection
C
We traded wit, we swapped some spit,
G
You fingered me a little bit
F G
But we never really had a connection
F C F C
You did nothing wrong, I have no excuse
F C G
Just my intuition telling me we shouldn't reproduce
C
I know I have to end it
G
But pretend to just suspend it
F G
By contending that I'm busy all week
C
I let the foregone linger on
G
Text back with an emoticon
F G
Withdraw from you by being oblique
F C F C
Inside I know my tactics just delay it
F C G
But I'd do anything so I don't have to say it
F G
I'll draw this out forever like it's Vietnam
F G
Then one day I'll be gone like Bambi's mom Awww
F C
Cause there's the right thing to do
F C
Then there's what I'm gonna do
F C
There's so much I should say
G Am
But instead... I do the fade away
G C
Now I'm fading like chalk on a sidewalk
G C
Or the polio virus after Jonas Salk
G C
Like a Jewish guy at Arby's on Yom Kippur
Am
The Whig party post Millard Fillmore
G C
The erection of a man on antidepressants
G C
The cast of Diff'rent Strokes after adolescence
G C
Reproductive rights below the Mason Dixon
Am
Native Americans after the barter systems
Dm G
Your thyroid gland after Hashimoto
Dm D
The family in the Back to the Future photo
Am
Yeah I fade away
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C G
We say that men are asshole who don't communicate
F G
We revel in our victimhood and amplify our hate
C G
We find ways to be indignant like it's a sport
F G
Then dissect their malignance with the views we distort
F C F C
The way men break up may be sloppy and terse
F C G
What they do is bad, but what we do is worse
C G
We pretend to ourselves it's the nice thing to do
F G
To let you down gently by just not fucking telling you
C G
And deep down we know it's the worst way to play it
F G
But we are what we have... huge pussies
G C
And women are hypocrites
G C
Especially ones in comedy bands
G C
We see your faults but not our own
Am
Then we wonder why we're all alone
F C F C
We fill you up with maybe's, excuses and stalls
F G
But like a baby in China... it's better to have balls
F G
Not the Good Wife type like Christine Baranski
F G
So I'll pull out and leave like I'm Roman Polanski
F C
Cause there's the right thing to do
F C
Then there's what I'm gonna do
F C
There's so much I should say
G Am
But instead... I do the fade away
G C
Like Verbal Kint fading into Kaiser Soze
G C
The rights in Arizona for a guy named Jose
G C
Opportunities for a college grad
Am
The love between your mom and dad
G C
Gonna Peter out like a gay Cetera
G C
Iranian relations since the Regan era
G C
Black Nike sales after Heaven's Gate
Am
Summer Camp attendance at Penn State
Dm G
The name Adolph after World War Two
Dm D
Like Debbie Gibson's pop career, Out of the Blue
Am
Yeah I fade away
G C
Cause I don't wanna get to know you
G C
I just want to blow you... off
