Fading Frames

Fading Frames

Intro

Yeah... lookin' back at the kid in the mirror, yeah

Verse

Used to run through the streets with the same old crew

Now the faces are gone and the memories blue

Momma cryin' in the kitchen over bills that stack

I was scribblin' rhymes on the walls in the back

Dad left a hole that I filled with the pen

Chasin' dreams that turned into needles again

The block where we played turned to boarded up doors

I remember the laughs but they echo no more

Schoolyard fights and the summer night heat

Now it's cold in the chest and the past got me beat

Hailie was small with that smile so bright

Now the world's too heavy and the days turn to night

I miss the old me before the fame took a bite

Before the lights got bright and the wrong felt right

Sittin' with pictures that yellow and crack

Wishin' I could rewind but the tape don't play back

Chorus

Fadin' frames on the wall (on the wall)

Can't catch the fall (can't catch the fall)

Nostalgia cuts deep like a blade in the soul

Old days are gone and they left me alone

Verse

Detroit winters froze more than the ground

They froze up the laughter and the friends I found

Recordin' on boomboxes hopin' for a shot

Now the hits keep comin' but the heart stays locked

Arguments with the mirror over who I became

The boy with big plans is just ash in the flame

Phone calls from ghosts that I never pick up

Too busy drownin' in yesterday's cup

The park where we kicked it now covered in weeds

I plant new seeds but they die from the greed

Remember the first time I stepped on the stage

Now the curtain falls heavy with nothin' to say

I chase the high of the past in the haze

But the high fades quick and the low stays for days

Tears on the paper where the stories unfold

Nostalgia's a prison and the key's gettin' old

Chorus

Fadin' frames on the wall (on the wall)

Can't catch the fall (can't catch the fall)

Nostalgia cuts deep like a blade in the soul

Old days are gone and they left me alone

The Vanishing Kid

Intro

Uh-huh... where'd he go

Verse

Little Marshall with the notebook full of pain

Dreamin' of stages while the rain hit the pane

Now the notebook's heavy with the weight of the years

And the kid in the pages just disappears

Friends turned to strangers on the other side of fame

I wave from the distance but they don't know my name

The trailer park echoes with the fights that we had

I still hear the voices when the nights get bad

Chasin' the high of the first time I rhymed

Now the high is a low and the clock don't rewind

Hailie grows up and I miss every phase

Stuck in the loop of the olden days

The mic used to save me from the dark in my head

Now the dark's gettin' darker and the light's gone dead

Photos in boxes that I can't bring myself to see

The boy that I was is just a ghost to me

Chorus

Vanishing kid in the rearview (rearview)

Fadin' away from the truth (from the truth)

Nostalgia's a chain that