I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life,
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
A stranger's light it comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then it's smiles cover your heart
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
I want to take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life,
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
A stranger's light it comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then it's smiles cover your heart
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Lyrics submitted by numb, edited by ducklife447, seattledragon, Lolabunny, AndrewHCF11
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what it means to me: she thought she finally found someone true, and fell in love with them. but the person had many walls built up, she tried to reach through them and show how much she cares. she thinks he is damaged and has a dark perception of the world. he doesn't really show himself.
she realizes she will never really get through to him. he won't let her. he doesn't, or can't really love her back. what she thought was inside of him really isn't there (but she loves him anyway).
she looks to him and sees "nothing" because what she originally saw in him doesn't really exist. and that "nothing" has become truth to her. she has to remind herself he can't give back.
i believe the "truth" she looks to him to see, is also the depressing realization that she can't look to someone else to make her happy. he taught her this sad truth.
she doesn't normally open up to people easily either, but she offered her heart to him, to be her home, and welcomed his. deep in his mind, he knows. he realizes how much she loved him, but it's too late. and doesn't matter. his heart is too protected, but he smiles knowing what she has given him.
...and she fades into him. i think this means she loved him so much he became everything to her. at first she looked to him as someone to make her happy, but ended up trying to be everything to make him happy. and lost herself. i think it also means that she begins to see the darkness in him, in herself. she is hurt and depressed and has lost hope. it's like looking in a mirror.
after everything she thinks it is strange he never knew how much she really wanted to care and how sincere she was and wanted to be the one to make him happy and for him to be the one to make her happy. what could have been. the hurt he was causing her. she loved him for what he was. he's too messed up and self-centered to appreciate it. or just didn't feel the same way.
i think it's about disappointment. a broken heart. and a damaged soul.
maybe the darkness also becomes part of what makes him so real to her. accepting truth in disappointment and hurt. he has damaged her, she can't trust her own perception of reality. and now she has to build her own walls. the song sounds final, like there is a loss.
i think she continues to love him from a distance, but she is done.
part of her believes she understood him and that he would have loved her if only he really knew. the other part of her knows the truth.
wow, i feel like yours matches my exact interpretation of the song. keep posting around!
if she fades into him, doesn't it become reflexive and mean that she's also just as guilty? or at least complicit. and do you think that they've got a chance in hell of makin' it once each has had their wounded soul wrapped in neosporn-smeared bandage? <br /> <br /> i'd like to think so, but maybe that's the bleeding heart in me
Well, this is kind of my story............................
Wow! you are a true writer, and a truth seer. Your ability to explain this in such an articulate way. is full of profoundness. and understanding..I know. you must be year of the dog..or perhaps a tiger. Beware who you let in. We see what we see and i feel a true rush within as i gain full transparent understanding of a relationship. Blessed are the weak in spirit for the kingdome of heaven is theirs.
@crowjanie WOW nail on the head.... This is exactly what I understood it to mean.
@crowjanie This is exactly what this means to me.... Excellent post!
@crowjanie I have been here... It did not end up the way I thought it would.
@crowjanie Oh my gosh! YES!! You explained this song perfectly and you gave it much more meaning. Thank you for your thoughts. :-)
@crowjanie r u a mentalist coz u read my mind. Cheers (:
@crowjanie Come on, you have an inside source right? lol That was beautiful.<br />
@crowjanie Nailed it
@crowjanie Wow... I have loved this song for years and now, how you've explained it, I feel I am in the same boat. Your explanation is incredible and mind blowing. I love it, but it makes me sad at the same time<br /> <br />
@crowjanie Beautiful synopsis! This resonates deeply and clarifies my thoughts and feelings just as I was seeking. Thank you!
Wonderful extensive explanation!
@crowjanie wow. Wow. Wow. Is all i can say!
@crowjanie ha either you're an art major or you relate all too much to this song, good luck to you
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@crowjanie omg
@crowjanie i agree white you so much
@crowjanie yes, your post was a while ago..(16 or so years..seems like yesterday to me)<br /> Very well stated! Reading your words, I felt damn near exactly how I do while listening to the song..<br /> <br />
@crowjanie Good take on this song
My belief is that when you "fade into someone" you indulge in the short-term illusion of believing that someone else can make you happy.
This song has all the right sounds of someone giving themselves over.. it's kind of like being blindfolded and led into the dark, completely trusting something that's not there...
@Miss Mess I thought "fade" would be to blur the lines between him and her. making compromise for the relationship however frightful it may be
I think this song is about someone who is in love with someone who is too damaged to feel love. Everything on the outside seems to be in place, but shadow and stranger imagery suggest that this person is floundering, unable to connect. The lover/singer is desperately trying to connect, hold the hand inside of someone who has yet to come to grips with themselves. They are not ready, still blind. It is so tragic to love someone like this. I have. This is the person who cannot give back. They sabotage themselves, colors their eyes with what's not there. The object of this song deep down cannot understand why anyone would love them. "strange you never knew" refers to this sense of self loathing and doubt. This person cannot see themselves as lovable even though the love is so real to the singer. Tragic.
I agree with your interpretation 100%. When I heard this song for the first time, I thought of my life-long hope of earning my mother's love. Her love was a conditional love and I know now it's because she does not love herself. You strive so hard that you eventually fade into being what the other person wants you to be because all along you believe that you must appease the other person and be what you think she wants you to be in order to be loved. Love is such a core requirement that it's not a surprise how I faded into her. You keep trying to grasp for something that will never be given back to you...and it leaves you suffering, in pain and broken.
I was married to a wonderful woman for 16 years. For the last 5 of those she was addicted to prescription drugs and meth. Neglecting our daughter where previously she'd been an amazing mom. I finally divorced her and took our daughter. When I did, the meaning af this song seemed so clear. It was almost as if she had become soulless... Shame. I really loved her.
This is exactly what I'm dealing with right now. I met this girl two years ago and ever since then we've kept in-touch. And ever since then, we've seen each other several times. She visited me and I visited her back. She keeps running away. I've lost my faith between her and I once, and now I'am/we're at it again, and I'm losing it once again. She built these walls up and I'm almost out of energy to break them down. I know I love her and when I look into her eyes I know there's something there. It's unfortunate we can't meet eye to eye. She keeps fading away.
You're so right. All this time I've wondered why this song means so much to me. Your interpretation is exactly my answer. Except my love for this song comes from my yearning for love from my mother. I've always needed her love but drugs have always been her priority. She has never given herself a chance in this life and never seen what a good person she really is. I love her, but she can't love me b/c she doesn't love herself....I know she has her reasons for hating life, but don't we all?
dead on. great interpretation and beautifully put. we'.ve all tasted that in some way at one time in our lives
"i want to hold the hand inside you i want to take the breath that's true.."
Don't we all..Mazzy Star, a female fronted alternative slow core band, achieved their greatest success in 1994 with the single
Fade Into You.'' The song, with lyrics by vocalist Hope Sandoval and music by guitarist David Roback, peaked on the Billboard Modern Rock charts at number three.
Fade Into You'' was also a Top 50 single in both the United States and the U.K. The video was prominently featured on MTV, and the song has been featured in movies such as Angus, Nicholas Cage's 2005 Lord of War, Guy Ritchie's Swept Away, and countless television shows such as Alias, Desperate Housewives, Roswell, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls and CSI Miami.The song has different meanings to different people. For most, it's a reminder of an era of alternative music that defined a generation post Seattle-grunge. Memories of teenage make out sessions, slow dances, and romantic courting. Some people take the lyrics as words coming from a shy wallflower type that is finally confessing their feelings to the object of his or her affection.
The lyrics are most widely interpreted as a bittersweet story of falling in love with someone that is slightly damaged and incapable of living up to expectations. Hope Sandoval hauntingly sings of trying to connect with her partner on both an emotional and physical level; until, she begins to realize that this person can't give back. They aren't quite positioned where they need to be in life. You can hear the disappointment and heartbreak in the way she sings her lyrics. She has in many ways given herself to whomever she sings to. They have become everything to her and she's lost herself in the process. She's faded into him and has discovered that she's slightly damaged as a result.
The verse ``I think it's strange you never knew'' seems to suggest that this person hasn't even noticed Hope's heartache or her true feelings because their soul is damaged, their world may be dark, and they're self-centered and lacking a certain depth. It's as if this person fails to realize that the couple aren't the same two people they once were. He never noticed that she's morphed into something to appease him rather than something true to herself. (musicbanter.com)
love. make love to this song. and cry.
i think this song is about someone who has had a crush on a certain person for some while and has never revealed the crush. "i think its strange you never knew". the song is just revealing the emotions. but thats just what i think :)
i agree kermit ....i wasnt sure what to think but that makes perfect sense .... thanx
The picture perfect song to listen to when you feel low, creative, or tranquil. Rock on Mazzy Star.
First, I think there are a lot of good interpretations given thus far, and I think they are all correct. It's what you take from the song. And about the guy's liking this song...it doesn't matter what songs you like and don't like. You are attracted to a song because of a certain aspect of your being has been touched. It can be rythmic, emotional, whatever. It just works. Now, what do I think it all means? I think she is declaring her love for someone. But, not just that. Right before the first chorus she says, "some kind of night into your darkness colours your eyes with what's not there," She told her crush that she was in love with them, and they are just becoming aware of the crush. Then, it's turns into that other person's love toward her. "a stranger's light comes on slowly, a stranger's heart without a home, you put your hands into your head, and then the smiles cover your heart." There she is saying a stranger, being her, looking for a "home", or someone to love, and the crush is realizing this foreign feeling, and then returning that emotion, "smiles cover your heart." And the chorus is just repeating the fact that they are one now, but ironic that the crush never knew she had feelings before hand. A little confusing, I know, but it's hard to try and put emotion into words.
This song was also in a Diet Coke commercial a year or two ago, with a husband talking about how when he and his wife first got married, she always wore sexy underwear, but now she wears cotton underwear, and seeing the cotton underwear in the laundry basket makes him feel comfortable. And yes, this is one of the sexiest songs ever :) R&B has nothin' on Mazzy Star!