The Dockets - The Fading Out Lyrics

Winters here, do get cold
The wind like a whip, wearing people down
Cold like that is a drug, once bright and eager eyes, hollow and dark

We sleep to the sound of the radio
To the old country songs that our parents wrote with red eyes and broken souls

On April 1 when she left, swiped the keys, the car. Left the Klonopin
Scattered like a buckshot spread. And it's silent now but for chimes in the wind

But I still remember her laugh, when I'd recite the romance novel she'd read before bed
And that's when I don't want to live... recalling things like that

And the nights we'd drive up to the lake, making plans and promises of running away
Then I'd row us out to the buoys where they dance and they sway
We were saved

I stand upon the King Street Dam
Independence Day explodes overhead
Like a cannon's boom raises the dead
It's white smoke obscures the water's edge

But the river that we'd swim in is now dry
And in the attic is Emma's gown of white
But not the same shade it was that night

We said pretty words in our plain way in the hundred-year-old brown stone church on White Ash Lane
You drove us into the city, its lights burning away
We were saved
Singing, we were saved

When the chill creeps back and the leaves bleed out
I'd drive with Jim, the outskirts of town
We'd build bonfires with wood we found
Then watch it silently, slowly burn out

And when there was nothing but ash
Where does that smoke go
I would turn and ask
And Jim would say, It don't go nowhere
It just fades out