Fluorescent Fading

{clean jangly Rickenbacker guitar chords playing a syncopated riff} {snare rim-clicks

on 2 and 4} {warm analog bassline rolling in}

You used to run with a spark in your eyes

Talking too fast under summertime skies But fourteen faded out in the

rain Now the homework books are stacked up again

{drums switch to active

driving 8th-note pattern} Oh,

the exam sheets are calling your name

And the playground games don't feel the same {guitars starting to overdrive

slightly} {snare building up}

Now you're fifteen and the colors are grey GCSE books took your

magic away Where did the wildness of yesterday go?

(where did it go?)

Stuck in a classroom put on a show {loud explosive chorus}

{overdriven dual guitar harmonies}

Your old worn-out sneakers are left by the door

You don't climb the trees in the park anymore Lost in the

formulas,

memorizing lines Watching the clock as it counts down the times {rhythm

section drops to half-time groove}

No more running through the neighborhood streets

Just revision guides and chemistry sheets

(ahhhh) {melancholic guitar solo echoing

the melody} Now you're fifteen and the colors are grey GCSE books

took your magic away Where did the wildness of yesterday go?

(where did it go?)

Stuck in a classroom put on a show

{loud explosive chorus} {overdriven dual guitar harmonies} Goodbye fourteen,

goodbye spark (goodbye)

{instruments

slowly fade out} {single clean guitar finishing

on a sustained E major chord}