Fading into Obscurity

So many stories
I can tell

I had the world
under my spell

Does this even ring a bell?

I wonder because
Don't you know who I was?

Interest in me dissipated
All my methods antiquated

I've been cast away
Lost and friendless today

I made a name for myself
When one could do such a thing

A reputation that's held together by string

And so I chose to cherish those
who seem there's some purity
to fading into obscurity

What words on paper
Has the tendency to ride on vapor?

Sometimes what's not to love
But then other times, what's to like?

I'm unable to tell if I know who I am
I'm honest success
A shiv or a sham

I'm not afraid of what I'm made of
But my trajectory has me
Fading into obscurity

You kids will have to fend for yourselves
Because your mother's gone and
asked for the elves

Who used to do all the work around here
Well they're not gonna do it anymore

You kids can kiss your mother goodbye
And I'll give you twenty minutes to cry

She used to do all the work around here
But she's not going to do it anymore

And you're getting to old to be cared for

by me

And for that matter
This cake is baked but I much
prefer the batter

Perhaps in part
because it had so much potential

To be delicious and
still be influential

I'm undecided
If the eminence that I provided

Explains what I mean
Is true that now as I
can see or be seen

And I know that you'll only shrug
Through my tears
So I'm not going to shed them anymore

Out of favor
With the flavor of the week's where I'll be
and fading into obscurity

An outsider but
in good company.

I'm fading into obscurity.

I'm undecided.