Can't Fade Away Lyrics

When I was just a baby calf

I’d always make my mother laugh

By blowing bubbles in the bath

Or imitating every tall giraffe

In front of human beings

And every now and then it seems

They’d turn the focus back and me

They’d poke and prod and proudly taunt and

Tease me like I wouldn’t mind, it would hurt, I wouldn’t cry

They didn’t know but didn’t try, to understand, to empathize

My mother sat me down and she explained

Bad days will come but they’ll always fade away

When I was older then I knew, the rotten things a man can do

And though I tried to curb my fears, they struck me down, erased my final

Years and years have passed me by, a couple decades since I died

I thought my resting place was tied to one who took away my little life

And now, I’m finding out, there's nothing in the sky but only

Clouds and sun and birds and air, not a shred of heaven any

Where I’ll go I do not know, back to earth to maybe wait some more

And when my time it ends, I’ll wear an everlasting grin

I don’t know where to go but I do not want to stay

Bad days will come but they’ll always fade away

And maybe in a future time, children will repeat how I

Lived longer past the day I died, sum it up inside a nursery

Rhyme the end of every verse, sing until their throats are horse

And when they finally lose their voice, scream until their tiny tonsils

Burst in air, the atmosphere, you will find, find me there

Trying hard to disappear, but never ever going any

Where it ends I do not know, I do not have a way to go

I do not have a resting home, I do not have a way that I can

Say the words that haunt me to this day

Bad days will come but they’ll always fade away

My days are gone but I still can’t fade away