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A highly personal song about a woman's struggle with dementia with some gorgeous sax playing by Rob Vincs

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Fade Away

There’s a woman at the front gate She’s screaming at the sky
Where have all my family gone, and who am I left on my own?
She was my Nana’s daughter, the apple of her eye
Now there’s tearful confusion and fearful disillusion
And the villainy that offers up the lie

Fade away, fade away
Gone for good, lost her way
Darkness come to steal the day
So I kissed her and watched her fade away

There’s a woman on the telephone, she’s in trouble and in strife Sounds faintly familiar, if not a bit dis-similar
Maybe she remembers, she was my father’s wife
Now her voice is tinged with hesitance and shaking with uncertainness
Put down the phone and run, run for your life

There’s a woman on the back porch, she’s staring into space
Her memories disorganised, children now unrecognised
She was my uncle’s sister, the smile on his face
Now she’s funny and ridiculous, dislocate and timorous
This woman come to take my mother’s place

She was crazy she was shy
I held her hand she closed her eyes
So I kissed her and watched her fade away
She was worried and confused
I felt ashamed to be amused
I kissed her and watched her fade away
One day she will be free
One day that could be me
So I kissed her and watched her

© JAMESONGS 2018
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from The Song is Everything, released August 1, 2020
JAMES WAKELING: VOCAL, GUITAR | TIM NIKOLSKY: CONTRA BASS | SERGE DE LUCIO: BODHRAN | ROB VINCS: TENOR SAXOPHONE

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