Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Life it seems to fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
I need the end to set me free
Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly loss this can't be real
I cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn, yeah
I was me but now, he's gone
Hey, do you hear us Cliff? Do you hear us Cliff?
No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try, oh no
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Oh, but death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye
So goodbye
Yeah goodbye
I say goodbye
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
I need the end to set me free
Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly loss this can't be real
I cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn, yeah
I was me but now, he's gone
Hey, do you hear us Cliff? Do you hear us Cliff?
No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try, oh no
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Oh, but death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye
So goodbye
Yeah goodbye
I say goodbye
Lyrics submitted by fennsk, edited by RyanWolfeh, LHGL
Fade To Black Lyrics as written by Lars Ulrich James Alan Hetfield
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Tratore, Word Collections Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I've always considered this song differently from the way you all see it.....hmmmm...
I don't know why, but I think this song is about an old guy who has lived life to it's fullest and now that he's aged, he feels lonely and depressed so he's considering death as a solution for all his loneliness.
I even think that this old dude is sick and he's not even willing to fight his sickness because he knows he's done everything he could've in his younger years and now it's simply not worth it.....and I quote :
I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free
He needs the end to set him free from his pain essentially. You could say it's about suicide but viewing it from this angle, why does he say there's nothing more for me??? I think it's because he's done all that he could in his youth....
He's maybe thinking of EUTHANESIA and I feel that FADE TO BLACK and ONE have a very similar meanings....
Other than that I would advice you to get the COVER made by SONATA ARCTICA because it's really good...of course they don't use the SOLO but it has a really good feel to it.... In between the two verses they add a little riff and they don't repeat the same riff Metallica uses four times but only 2 times....and I think that was the biggest weakness in FADE TO BLACK.
Other than that I consider FTB as one of the 5 best Metallica songs ...