Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside
And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive
Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you
It's getting cold in California
I guess I'll be leaving soon

Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
We leave just before it's gone

She said "Everybody loves you,"
She says, "Everybody cares"
But all the things I keep inside myself
They vanish in the air
If you tell me that you'll wait for me
I'll say I won't be here
I want to say goodbye to you
Goodbye to all my friends
Goodbye to everyone I know

Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
We leave just before it's gone



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Daylight Fading Lyrics as written by Adam Fredric Duritz David Lynn Bryson

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    i love this song a lot and it makes me sad that no one's commented on it in over a year :[ anyway, i can see where the above comments are coming from but i believe it's about someone with anxiety disorder or an avoidant personality; i can especially see this because that's how i am and i can see where they're coming from. the second verse especially--he's saying even though everyone supposedly cares for him, he still can't bring himself to tell them how he really feels inside. he doesn't trust that they'll be there waiting for him, so he just avoids the whole ordeal. he thinks things would be better off if he just kept to himself and said "goodbye to everyone i know." but in any case, this is a fantastic song and it's permanently stuck in my head :]

    angelofthesilenceon October 18, 2004   Link

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