🎸 The Fade Away chords by Garfunkel And Oates

Figured Out On Ukulele, Same On Guitar
Capo 1st Fret
C
We've been on a bunch of dates
G
I weigh debates that this creates
     F                      G
And hate that state of forced introspection
C
We traded wit, we swapped some spit,
G
You fingered me a little bit
F                    G
But we never really had a connection

F              C  F            C
You did nothing wrong, I have no excuse
F      C                       G
Just my intuition telling me we shouldn't reproduce

C
I know I have to end it
G
But pretend to just suspend it
  F                 G
By contending that I'm busy all week
C
I let the foregone linger on
G
Text back with an emoticon
F                 G
Withdraw from you by being oblique

F     C        F          C
Inside I know my tactics just delay it
      F       C                   G
But I'd do anything so I don't have to say it

F                   G
I'll draw this out forever like it's Vietnam
         F             G
Then one day I'll be gone like Bambi's mom Awww

F           C
Cause there's the right thing to do
                F         C
Then there's what I'm gonna do
       F         C
There's so much I should say
        G            Am
But instead... I do the fade away

G               C
Now I'm fading like chalk on a sidewalk
         G             C
Or the polio virus after Jonas Salk
     G                   C
Like a Jewish guy at Arby's on Yom Kippur
Am
The Whig party post Millard Fillmore

G                      C
The erection of a man on antidepressants
   G                     C
The cast of Diff'rent Strokes after adolescence
G                    C
Reproductive rights below the Mason Dixon
Am
Native Americans after the barter systems

Dm               G
Your thyroid gland after Hashimoto
Dm                 D
The family in the Back to the Future photo
Am
Yeah I fade away

C                     G
We say that men are asshole who don't communicate
    F                            G
We revel in our victimhood and amplify our hate
      C                  G
We find ways to be indignant like it's a sport
            F                    G
Then dissect their malignance with the views we distort

F            C         F         C
The way men break up may be sloppy and terse
     F           C         G
What they do is bad, but what we do is worse

C                 G
We pretend to ourselves it's the nice thing to do
   F                G
To let you down gently by just not fucking telling you
    C                    G
And deep down we know it's the worst way to play it
       F             G
But we are what we have... huge pussies

G          C
And women are hypocrites
G            C
Especially ones in comedy bands
G                C
We see your faults but not our own
Am
Then we wonder why we're all alone

F            C    F        C
We fill you up with maybe's, excuses and stalls
F                 G
But like a baby in China... it's better to have balls

F                     G
Not the Good Wife type like Christine Baranski
     F                   G
So I'll pull out and leave like I'm Roman Polanski

F           C
Cause there's the right thing to do
                F          C
Then there's what I'm gonna do
          F            C
There's so much I should say
    G                Am
But instead... I do the fade away

     G                C
Like Verbal Kint fading into Kaiser Soze
    G                        C
The rights in Arizona for a guy named Jose
G                C
Opportunities for a college grad
Am
The love between your mom and dad
G                C
Gonna Peter out like a gay Cetera
G                C
Iranian relations since the Regan era
G                    C
Black Nike sales after Heaven's Gate
Am
Summer Camp attendance at Penn State

Dm               G
The name Adolph after World War Two
    Dm               D
Like Debbie Gibson's pop career, Out of the Blue
Am
Yeah I fade away
        G            C
Cause I don't wanna get to know you
           G     C
I just want to blow you... off