Time Fades Away

Album: Time Fades Away (1973)
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  • Fourteen junkies too weak to work
    One sells diamonds for what they're worth
    Down on pain street, disappointment lurks
    Son, don't be home too late
    Try to get back by eight
    Son, don't wait till the break of day
    'Cause you know how time fades away
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away

    All day presidents look out windows
    All night sentries watch the moonglow
    All are waiting till the time is right
    Son, don't be home too late
    Try to get back by eight
    Son, don't wait till the break of day
    'Cause you know how time fades away
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away

    Back in Canada I spent my days
    Riding subways through a haze
    I was handcuffed, I was born and raised
    Son, don't be home too late
    Try to get back by eight
    Son, don't wait till the break of day
    'Cause you know how time fades away
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    You know how time fades away

    Thirteen junkies too weak to work
    One sells diamonds for what they're worth
    Down on pain street disappointment lurks
    Son, don't be home too late
    Try to get back by eight, eight
    Son, don't wait till the break of day
    'Cause you know how time fades away
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away

    Time fades away
    You know how time
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    Time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    You know how time fades away
    Son, don't wait till the break of day
    'Cause you know how time fades away Writer/s: Neil Young
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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