Capo 1st Fret C5 We've been on a bunch of dates G5 I weigh debates that this creates F5 G5 And hate that state of forced introspection C5 We traded wit, we swapped some spit, G5 You fingered me a little bit F5 G5 But we never really had a connection F5 C5 F5 C5 You did nothing wrong, I have no excuse F5 C5 G5 Just my intuition telling me we shouldn't reproduce C5 I know I have to end it G5 But pretend to just suspend it F5 G5 By contending that I'm busy all week C5 I let the foregone linger on G5 Text back with an emoticon F5 G5 Withdraw from you by being oblique F5 C5 F5 C5 Inside I know my tactics just delay it F5 C5 G5 But I'd do anything so I don't have to say it F5 G5 I'll draw this out forever like it's Vietnam F5 G5 Then one day I'll be gone like Bambi's mom Awww F5 C5 Cause there's the right thing to do F5 C5 Then there's what I'm gonna do F5 C5 There's so much I should say G5 A5 But instead... I do the fade away G5 C5 Now I'm fading like chalk on a sidewalk G5 C5 Or the polio virus after Jonas Salk G5 C5 Like a Jewish guy at Arby's on Yom Kippur A5 The Whig party post Millard Fillmore G5 C5 The erection of a man on antidepressants G5 C5 The cast of Diff'rent Strokes after adolescence G5 C5 Reproductive rights below the Mason Dixon A5 Native Americans after the barter systems D5 G5 Your thyroid gland after Hashimoto D5 D5 The family in the Back to the Future photo A5 Yeah I fade away C5 G5 We say that men are asshole who don't communicate F5 G5 We revel in our victimhood and amplify our hate C5 G5 We find ways to be indignant like it's a sport F5 G5 Then dissect their malignance with the views we distort F5 C5 F5 C5 The way men break up may be sloppy and terse F5 C5 G5 What they do is bad, but what we do is worse C5 G5 We pretend to ourselves it's the nice thing to do F5 G5 To let you down gently by just not fucking telling you C5 G5 And deep down we know it's the worst way to play it F5 G5 But we are what we have... huge pussies G5 C5 And women are hypocrites G5 C5 Especially ones in comedy bands G5 C5 We see your faults but not our own A5 Then we wonder why we're all alone F5 C5 F5 C5 We fill you up with maybe's, excuses and stalls F5 G5 But like a baby in China... it's better to have balls F5 G5 Not the Good Wife type like Christine Baranski F5 G5 So I'll pull out and leave like I'm Roman Polanski F5 C5 Cause there's the right thing to do F5 C5 Then there's what I'm gonna do F5 C5 There's so much I should say G5 A5 But instead... I do the fade away G5 C5 Like Verbal Kint fading into Kaiser Soze G5 C5 The rights in Arizona for a guy named Jose G5 C5 Opportunities for a college grad A5 The love between your mom and dad G5 C5 Gonna Peter out like a gay Cetera G5 C5 Iranian relations since the Regan era G5 C5 Black Nike sales after Heaven's Gate A5 Summer Camp attendance at Penn State D5 G5 The name Adolph after World War Two D5 D5 Like Debbie Gibson's pop career, Out of the Blue A5 Yeah I fade away G5 C5 Cause I don't wanna get to know you G5 C5 I just want to blow you... off
