intro:
C F C G C x2

verse:
  C
I had one friend in high school recently he hung 
himself with string
         F                                           
His note said "If livin' is the problem, well that's 
             C
just baffling."

And at the wake I waited around to see my ex first love
        F                                            
And I barely recognized her, but I knew exactly what 
        C
she was thinking of
       G                     F                      
We sat quietly in the corner whispering close about 
C
loss
        G                               F              
And I remembered why I loved her, and I asked her why I
           C
 drove her off

chorus:
She said
    F    G       C
The slow fade of love
         F     G    C
Its soft edge might Cut you
        F            Em
And our poor friend, Jim
     C       G/B      F
Well he just lived within
         G       C
The slow fade of love

verse:
  C
A woman calls my house once a week; she's always 
selling things
     F                                          
Some charity, a phone plan, a subscription to a 
    C
magazine
         G                                       
And as I turned her down, I always do, there was 
F                          C
something trembling in her voice
        G                                   F   
I said "Hey, what troubles you?", She said "I'm 
                 C
surprised you noticed"

verse:
        C
Well, my husband, he's leaving, and I can't convince 
him to stay
          F                                           
and he'll take our daughter with him, she wants to go 
            C
with him anyway
    G                           F                      
I'm sorry I'm hard to live with, living is the problem 
    C
for me
            G                            F             
I'm selling people things they don't want when I don't 
              C
know what you need

chorus:
            F    G       C
He said the slow fade of love
         F        G       C
and it's mist might choke you
        F       Em
It's my gradual descent
       C      G/B  F
Into a life I never meant
              G       C
It's the slow fade of love

break:
C F C G F C (similar to intro)

verse:
      C
I was driving south of Melrose; I happened upon my old 
lover's old house
          F                                           
I found myself staring at the closed up door like the 
                 C
day she threw me out

"Dianna, Dianna, Dianna I would die for you
       F                                               
I'm in love with you completely, I'm afraid that's all 
     C
I can do"
                  G                               
She said "You can sleep upon my doorstep, you can 
F                C
promise me indifference, Jim
       G                         F                
But my mind is made up, and I'll never let you in 
      C
again"

Chorus:
        F    G       C
For the slow fade of love
        F       G     C
It might hit you from below
          F       Em
It's your gradual descent
       C        G/B  F
Into a life you never meant
              G       C
It's the slow fade of love

outro:

         F    G       C
It's the slow fade of love  x9 (I think it is about 9 
time that you slow fade out)