When I've got something to say   Well, don't I always let you know   So that you and I can go my way together   And if I get carried away   Well, I could be sailing on a song   And maybe we could carry on forever      But lately this old dog   Has been chasing his tail   Round and round and round   And the circles in my mind   They have been winding slowly down   Everybody's breezing up   But I'm seizing up   I'm freezing up   And I'm fading away      I've got a hold on a night in june   I've got room for you and me   I've got moonlight up in the trees   I've got sixty-eight degrees   I've got nothing on my mind   But I've got loving in my heart   And I've got something out in the garden   I want to show you      Well, it really doesn't matter after all   If we quit this round about   And no one will really notice   If we can just sit this next one out   You can strike up the band without me   You may have your doubts about me   But I'm just fading away   You can hardly even see me   Because I'm fading away      Well, it's hard to find a label   For this feeling in my bones   That this is all a make-believe   But my cards are on the table   And there ain't nothing up my sleeve   And here I thought I was a thinking man   But I'm a shrinking man, I'm sinking man   I'm fading, fading away      Well, it's really not so bad to be fading away   Come on along with me and we'll go fading away   You can hardly even hear me because   I'm fading away