The Fadeout

from Out of the Basement by KATES!

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Well your synth is starting to drift out of tune
And you're burned out hoping to find something interesting soon

And it seems like you might have a piece of a thread
But it's not quite enough to distract yourself from the dread
Oh from the dread, oh no!

You find inspiration from experience
Which is kind of hard when you don't really get out much

And so you spend your time streaming videos of trendy movies
So they can't say you're out of touch
You're so out of touch, oh no!

You've reached into your pockets
You turned up nothing good
All you got was dust
You might be slipping now
Has it finally happened to you?

And it seems as though you're lost in the past
You're out of time
You're no longer a match
And as you make your exist
You'll ask: How could it be true?

Yeah how could it ever be true?

Well your children think you're the greatest thing
For the first 10 years
Then they begin to waver

And as the curtain falls
They see an aging goofball
Fading slowly and surely out of favour

Out of favour - oh no!

And it won't be long if you're careful enough, well
You'll probably find your credibility's unwinding

Until the day they say they hate you
And it's a gut punch that lands so hard
It's nearly blinding

It's nearly blinding - oh no!

Well you stood up on that stage
You got the hook and it was over
Did you think that you could stay there
Till you turned blue?

And it feels like a new chapter
In your life for worse or better
But you ask yourself
How could it ever be true?

How could it ever be true?
You're beginning to fade out

Don't you fade out
Don't you fade out on me...

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from Out of the Basement, released April 4, 2023

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KATES! Toronto, Ontario

KATES! is Dave Kates, multi-instrumentalist, family man and occasional singing robot. Currently, he divides his time between working from home, refereeing his children and recording in his basement.

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