Fading Away (Triijan Refrain)

Ironic how things change so fast
Seems our times at an end
Quarrels, our feelings can't outlast
Can no longer pretend
Can't keep trying any longer
No more feigning that I'm stronger
Can't keep trying
Can't keep trying
This can't go on any longer

Ironic how things change so fast
No more, a fairytale
This now leaving us both aghast
We're to weak to prevail
If we had tried, may have held fast
Such a shame we weren't meant to last
If we had tried
If we had tried
Maybe we wouldn't be the past

Ironic how things change so fast
Used to have hearts entwined
But now seeing clearly, at last
Finally, I'm resigned
Now moving on, away from you
For all this hurt, it was undue
Now moving on
Now moving on
What I'm feeling, you can't undo.

The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines.
Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line
at the beginning of each stanza. In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different.
The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8.
The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:

Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d refrain of first 4 words of line five /c

Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4,4 refrain/8