Fading White - Bao Binh
Today
you wear a dress of white
a color that no longer feels right
At fifty
you've walked so far but here you are
beneath a different star
I see
the change in your face but it's not just age
it's time displaced
Oh the white doesn't fit like it used to
the stories you told aren't true
Life's not the dream you once painted
the colors have faded, tainted
But still I watch, I try
to understand the reasons why
I hold the petals
yellow and cold
at twenty-two my heart's grown old
I see you now
but the past is clear
a man who left us
left you in tears
You taught me life from your own pain
but I see through it now through the rain
Oh the white doesn't fit like it used to
the stories you told aren't true
Life's not the dream you once painted
the colors have faded, tainted
But still I watch, I try
to understand the reasons why
Can you see the shadows that linger
in the footsteps of your younger figure
You once believed but now you know
that life isn't the tales you show
Oh the white doesn't fit like it used to
the stories you told aren't true
Life's not the dream you once painted
the colors have faded, tainted
But still I watch, I try
to understand the reasons why
Oh the white doesn't fit like it used to
the stories you told aren't true
Life's not the dream you once painted
the colors have faded, tainted
But still I watch, I try
to understand the reasons why
Can you see the shadows that linger
in the footsteps of your younger figure
You once believed but now you know
that life isn't the tales you show