Lord Baldwin - Fading Away Lyrics

I had me this dream years ago
It was such a sweet dream
And I was
Working hard to make it all mine
I thought I knew what to do
How to get what I wanted
It'd all just be a matter of time
Something went wrong along the way, I lost focus
Along with everything else
With a really bad hand
And I
I had a plan B
And an ace up my sleeve
But things didn't play out as planned
Now I'm sitting here, staring into space, thinking of how life is fickle
As some
Might have beens march by like a parade
Yeah, yeah
And the lights from the dream of mine are still bright as day
But me
I'm fading away
I'm fading away
It was another bad year again for me
And you know, the future
Ain't looking so bright
As options keep falling away
I get behind,
But hey man, I'm still in the fight
There's a cold wind's blowing these autumn days
It's hard to feel motivated and it's even harder to try
Though all the rules have changed I'm working to get back
To my inspirations that haven't run dry
Being here in this place is kind a bizarre
But when you're down and out
You can't be choosy where you stay
No, no
So I'm huddled by this fire
Working on a new idea
But unlike my ambition
I'm fading away
Uh, fading away
I walk the streets at night unnoticed like a ghost
Planning how to jump-start my life's next move
And I'm pushing back all of the negative forces
Cause I can feel I got something to prove
Yeah
As each new day comes and goes, I wonder
If things for me will ever shift into another gear
I gotta rise from adversity or else I'm doomed
To live the rest of my life here
And I'm out here with the ranks of the irrelevant
With the poor, the forgotten, the lost
And like them, I've become mostly invisible, unwanted
Especially after all the lines that I've crossed
My importance, my relevance, my value
Is in the eye of the beholder to weigh
Yeah
I'm still working that dream as my time will allow
I feel I'm getting closer
But, I'm fading away
Huh, fading away