Fade Away (Three and A Half Ways To Kill Me)

Escape from Hell, only to go back
Watched my cold heart turn cold and black
Tattered youth, memories that burn
Tortured, consumed by the terrors I’ve learned
So tie me down, tight to a chair
Pull my head back by my hair
Slide your knife across and cut my veins
Watch it rain as my lifeblood drains

Fade away, fade away… Take this all away
I don’t want to live to see yesterday
Have mercy and take this life from me
I trade you my next breath
If you’ll grant me a date with Death

This world gets by – everyone pretending
I thought you were real, but you were condescending
Expect me to bend and fold for you, my little angel
It was fall or break, so I closed my eyes and fell.
Looking tragic, holding your blackened tears as you kill me
Trying to hide the hate you thought I couldn’t see
Beat me down until my blood seeps out like sap
Put a noose around my neck and listen to it snap.

Fade away, fade away… Take this all away
I don’t want to live to see yesterday
Have mercy and take this life from me
I trade you my next breath
If you’ll grant me a date with Death

Now lay my broken body to rest
Keep the heart you ripped from my chest
Tuck me in to my brand new bed – six feet deep
I know you don’t feel guilty and you won’t lose any sleep
I’ve got no purpose in life
So hurry up, lock and load your .45
Throw me down and shoot me in the head
Shoot me thrice more to make sure I’m really dead.

Fade away, fade away… Take this all away
I don’t want to live to see yesterday
Have mercy and take this life from me
I trade you my next breath
If you’ll grant me a date with Death

My dear merciful angel
You helped me find the path to Hell
Whether you truly cared for me I’ll never know
Because even in death you never let it show

Fade away, fade away… Take this all away
I don’t want to live to see yesterday
Have mercy and take this life from me
I trade you my next breath
If you’ll grant me a date with Death

Fade away, fade away… Take this all away
I don’t want to live to see yesterday
Have mercy and take this life from me
I trade you my next breath
If you’ll grant me a date with Death

Fade away… Fade away…
Watched as your poisoned kiss killed me
Fade away… Fade away
Smiled as Death took my soul… silently… finally.