Colors Fade - live acoustic version

The gray light of the morning
 The blue-green of the sea
 A leaf splashed with color
 Falling from a tree
 The sparkle in a diamond
 The fire of the sun
 They all seemed much brighter
 Am I the only one?
 To see them
 Slowly slip away
 Something changes
 A little day by day
 Gazing at a rainbow, a brilliant vast array
 Staggered by it's beauty, saddened by it's modest stay
 Taken all for granted or innocence betrayed
 A lesson in mortality, eventually every color fades
 The blush of a woman
 The warmth of a touch
 The novelty of love
 Feelings within my clutch
 I try to savor
 But it doesn't taste the same
 Senses numbed and jaded
 A little day by day
 Gazing at a rainbow, a brilliant vast array
 Staggered by it's beauty, saddened by it's modest stay
 Taken all for granted or innocence betrayed
 A lesson in mortality, eventually every color fades away
 Slowly but surely
 As if it were the setting sun
 A child comes of age, gains life experience
 Time gathers innocence and trades it in for wisdom
 Like walkin' through the snow
 Its purity is stained
 Like a shootin' star across the sky
 Never meant to remain
 Gazing at a rainbow, a brilliant vast array
 Staggered by it's beauty, saddened by it's modest stay
 Taken all for granted or innocence betrayed
 A lesson in mortality, eventually every color fades
 Colors fade
 Colors fade
 Every color fades