FADING SEDIMENT

FADING SEDIMENT *NA X SHI* Fade away... Like a shadow in your memory Fade away... Like a name you used to say to me And tonight... I'm a face you barely recognize And tonight... I'm a story fading from your mind And I know... Even echoes have to disappear And I know... There'll be nothing left of me in here Ooh... ah... Just a trace of yesterday Slowly washing away... We used to leave our footprints in the rain Now every little mark has washed away I wonder if you ever think of me Or if I'm just a ghost you never see A photograph beneath a layer of dust A little piece of what was once enough I used to think that memories would stay But even precious things can fade away And I'm not angry, no, I'm not surprised I see the seasons changing in your eyes The things we held so tightly in our hands Are falling through like grains of sand And I'm slipping through your hands... Again... We were written in the water Never carved into the stone Every wave that moves between us Takes another piece of home Fade away... Like a shadow in your memory Fade away... Like a name you used to say to me And tonight... I'm a face you barely recognize And tonight... I'm a story fading from your mind And I know... Even echoes have to disappear And I know... There'll be nothing left of me in here Ooh... ah... Just a trace of yesterday Slowly washing away... I settled at the bottom of your heart A little bit of us that fell apart But time keeps pouring in like endless rain And every drop dissolves another name I never thought that silence had a sound Until I heard the world keep spinning round Without a single whisper of my name As if I never came, as if I never stayed And maybe that's the way it's meant to be You keep the future, time keeps taking me I won't demand a place inside your mind Or ask you to rewind Just let me disappear... With time... I was never made of stone Never something you could hold Just a little dust of yesterday In a river running cold And when the water turns to clear There'll be no sign that I was here Only you will know Or maybe you won't know... Fade away... Like a shadow in your memory Fade away... Like a name you used to say to me And tonight... I'm a face you barely recognize And tonight... I'm a story fading from your mind And I know... Even echoes have to disappear And I know... There'll be nothing left of me in here Ooh... ah... Just a trace of yesterday Slowly washing away... I was only sediment At the bottom of your heart And time... Was the water... That washed me away.