Fading Lady

Fading Lady - Jerry Jeff Walker

Count all your jewelry and your lace

Count all the shoes beneath your bed

And while your counting all

Those things in your head

Try and wrest the sorrow from your face

When you were young you courted

All the pretty boys

And laughed aloud with ones they knew

And soon you walked and talked

And thought just like them too

And now you wonder what's become of you

Count all your jewelry and your lace

Count all the shoes beneath your bed

And while your counting

All those things in your head

Try and wrest the sorrow from your face

When you chose one

To be your husband for your life

You weighed his good point by his gain

His promised security

Was fulfilled and you felt fine

Now in your age

Those mellow years won't sustain

Count all your jewelry and your lace

Count all the shoes beneath your bed

And while your counting

All those things in your head

Try and wrest the sorrow from your face

Now for imagination

Where you seek out the one

Who live a life of dreams they build

You have no gifts to share

You've nothing for no one

So just watch the colors fade as you start to wilt

Count all your jewelry and your lace

Count all the shoes beneath your bed

And while your counting

All those things in your head

Try and wrest the sorrow from your face