Fade Away - St. Paul Slim, Slug

I’m looking at that empty glass, like it might look back

And if it did would it recognize the fact

That I need to find a way to relax

That won’t require me to drink away the rain and the fire that paint the tracks

The judgement passed upon that awful taste

Time flies too fast but it’s not a race

You see it on my face, I’m trying to concentrate

But everything’s too blurry to accommodate

I gotta chase the impossible

But every option starts up with a shot and ends up as an obstacle

Maybe I should just drink at home

Tell me, why would a prisoner leave his throne?

Even when I stand still, I’m still on the run

I’m the son of my father, got a bottle of some

And this goes to those of us that only live once

But don’t remember nothing when the morning comes

And so I drink to the life of those that drink to death

If I can’t save the day I might as well fade away

And so I drink to the life of those that drink to death

If I can’t save the day I might as well fade away

(Oh yeah) Fade away, fade away

(Oh yeah) Fade away, fade away

Scene 2, this is the part

Where my face hits the windshield and it stops my heart

Driving the wrong fucking way down a one way

Doing 55 in a 30, 3 AM, Monday

No one on the block but me and the cops

If I can make it to the crib, I’ll do it again, watch

I been drinking since noon, fucking buffoons

As far as amounts I lost count, I don’t know what I consumed

I never do, drink 'till I’m dumb

Some say I’m lush, others think I’m a bum

But I think I’m in love 'till death do us part, and even then too

I’m a hell’s kitchen, bottle of Don Q

I love the taste of it, put it to my face like I’m face fucking

And the pain?

It’ll erase nothing

I’m delusional

I wrote this shit hungover at my job noddin' off at my cubicle

Life is beautiful

And so I drink to the life of those that drink to death

If I can’t save the day I might as well fade away

(Oh yeah) And so I drink to the life of those that drink to death

If I can’t save the day I might as well fade away

(Oh yeah) Fade away, fade away

(Oh yeah) Fade away, fade away