Laminate floors and paper halls With every step you hold the wall A parapet across your biggest fears Never to forget what happened year Scratch some words into the wood of your door Illuminate the room with the light on your phone Find a map of the world that you used A a way to prove you're far too small To become a cliche Cause I'd do it if I could Walking around the neighborhood All the faces misunderstood All the houses of old exes All the houses that I slept in All the places secrets kept in Fade away Fade away You'd answer an errant call A picture kept, a sweater worn An esoteric lifetime disappears The dreams that you forgot but once revere No one will notice, no one will mind You never had a choice, but now its all fine All the things you do will change the world of your past All the consequences your life will outlast Cause I'd do it if I could Walking around the neighborhood All the faces misunderstood All the houses of old exes All the houses that I slept in All the places secrets kept in Fade away Fade away A letter to the places where you knew me A better way to live vicarious through the Domestic paradise of going forty For the first time I'll sit at the broken table and write a movie All about the places that you showed me We can go off script knowing what you know now Where we would be, had we ever known how