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 Home > Metallica > Discography > Ride The Lightning > 04. Fade To Black
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Song ID: 24498
Covered As: Fade To Black by Apocalyptica
Fade To Black by Apoptygma Berzerk
Fade To Black by boysetsfire
Fade To Black by Disturbed
Fade To Black by Iron Horse
Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
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
Need the end to set me free

Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel

Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he's gone

No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye
Ride The Lightning
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04. Fade To Black
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Avatar #1: FlameXStillXBurns - added: 12/11/2003, 02:56 AM
so many suicidal nights
Avatar #2: Bliss From A Dead Embrace - added: 12/21/2003, 09:09 PM
Steller.......... its amazing.... absolutly perfect
Avatar #3: Sam Dyer, scratch47 - added: 12/23/2003, 08:43 AM
Metallica, proudly confirming suicides since 1984. What a number.
Avatar #4: Chiplin - added: 12/23/2003, 08:21 PM
best song ever made. Ever.
Avatar #5: Cloutweb_Duff - added: 01/23/2004, 08:17 PM
This song is bigger than Marlo Brando
Avatar #6: **TiNa** - added: 01/26/2004, 06:04 AM
ThIs SoNg is gReAt.
Avatar #7: Idfeiid - added: 01/26/2004, 09:42 PM
my all time favorite metallica song
Avatar #8: monoxide555 - added: 02/20/2004, 09:44 PM
This song is the real deal!
Avatar #9: Bliss From A Dead Embrace - added: 02/21/2004, 03:38 AM
Best Song ever...... i already commented but i have 2 again........ beauty in he form of death..... so so deep..... Perfection
Avatar #10: Poopstick Ninja - added: 02/22/2004, 02:44 PM
I never really thought the chorus riff fit well in this song.
Avatar #11: Old Jochem - added: 02/24/2004, 08:26 AM
this song really made me a fan of Metallica Its so beautiful
Avatar #12: Silent Waters - added: 03/12/2004, 05:41 PM
metallica is the best]
Avatar #13: Fade To black - added: 03/15/2004, 01:49 PM
THIS IS MY FUCKING SONG!!
Everbody who doesn't like it I will kill!
Avatar #14: Bill Dance - added: 03/16/2004, 07:46 PM
Kill me. This song is poo and a lame attempt at music.
Avatar #15: Wintermute - added: 03/21/2004, 03:39 AM
best. suicide. note. ever.
Avatar #16: Vash - added: 03/27/2004, 01:11 AM
arguably the best metallica song... it's just... amazing in every right.
Avatar #17: The One - added: 03/29/2004, 03:48 PM
Absolutely the best song ever made. I mean it's just great. The lyrics are perfect. Really dark and stuff. With the intro guitar solo alone this song already is worth an A+. The ending is the best part. This rocks so much.
Avatar #18: Hem - added: 04/03/2004, 04:11 PM
classic. possibly the best song ever written
Avatar #19: Jochem - added: 04/09/2004, 08:41 AM
One off the best songs ever written for sure This might be even better then Nothing Else matters and One. tHe LyrIcs here are soo deep and amazing. Every time I hear this, it makes me think about life. The guitarsolos in this song are one off the best that I ever heard. The begin with a very calm one and the end it with an endless heavy solo. Awesome song!!!
Avatar #20: xkallofktulux - added: 04/11/2004, 06:03 PM
best song ever
Avatar #21: thenewdisease262 - added: 04/13/2004, 04:31 PM
one of the best metallica songs i love th eintro with the instruments it is awesome and creative. i give it a 10 out of 10 this song is perfect and easy listening. a helpful song when you need it in some ways
Avatar #22: MrBlond - added: 04/28/2004, 07:49 PM
After One this is the best Metallica song. It begins great with a brilliant solo. Then the lyrics are said in the best way possible. Those are about suicide which he commits in the end. And then a Awesoem Guitarsolo kicks in! One off the best songs ever made!
Avatar #23: Creeping Death - added: 05/03/2004, 08:31 AM
This is the best song on this Amazing album! Jesus Christ if You don't rate this perfect you must be completly tastless! This is soo incredible. It start great with a solo and it end great with a solo! The lyrics kick some major ass aswell!
Avatar #24: Jochem - added: 05/06/2004, 09:17 AM
Woow Just heard this song live! Makes it even better!
Avatar #25: Tools - added: 05/06/2004, 01:39 PM
One off the best if not the best song ever made in the history of music! Great deep lyrics with an Awesome guitarsolo in the beginning and in the end!
Avatar #26: Poopstick Ninja - added: 05/09/2004, 10:12 PM
The song isn't so much about suicide as it is about losing purpose and a will to move on.
Avatar #27: LikexAxBulletxToxMyxHead - added: 05/18/2004, 09:16 PM
This song is trully amazing. I love the solos at the beginning and the end. They add a really nice touch to the song. It's the song on this CD.
Avatar #28: Silent Waters - added: 06/06/2004, 10:57 AM
beautiful song one of the greatest of the cd
Avatar #29: 16 - added: 06/12/2004, 12:24 PM
SKARGHASH RULEZ AND METALLICA RULEZZZZZZZ
Avatar #30: Deep - added: 06/13/2004, 12:25 PM
Beautiful song. with great lyrics. Hetfield read the lyrics a coule year later and was suprised to see how deep and serious the were. (Saw this on Mtv Icons so you probably no all of this already but how cares)
Avatar #31: 16 - added: 06/25/2004, 09:41 AM
XxXxXxXxXxXxX to metallica
Avatar #32: Nils - added: 06/25/2004, 10:11 AM
i F*CKING love this song! bramble = gay! i'm sure metallica don't like the kisses of you!
Avatar #33: Big D - added: 06/25/2004, 11:30 PM
Wow, everybody likes this song. I like this song too!
Avatar #34: Silent Waters - added: 07/05/2004, 05:49 AM
Yo Endilion you rules
Avatar #35: THE Perfect Name - added: 07/31/2004, 10:33 AM
Perfection.
Avatar #36: zerospace_13 - added: 08/07/2004, 02:29 AM
after unendlessly listening to this song for hours, i finally figured out how to play it... this is an amazing song... it's fucking great...
Avatar #37: System II - added: 08/11/2004, 09:47 PM
fucking awesome song
Avatar #38: Cratic - added: 09/07/2004, 07:02 PM
really good lyrics to this song
Avatar #39: Seanicho420 - added: 09/26/2004, 01:47 PM
beyond amazing, my favorite song
Avatar #40: I c y - added: 10/22/2004, 08:36 AM
Oh YEA! Fade to Black. This is the best song made by Metallica. Well, probably. The lyrics is awesome, let alone the guitar solos and riffs here.
Avatar #41: 42147 - added: 11/09/2004, 04:44 PM
Historically, this is the first song that the so-called "hardcore" metfans would turn their heads away from saying "Fuck that song!" But now it is viewed as classic. People who complain about Metallica nowadays should think about that. It's nothing new for them to go beyond the rules of metal. They've been doing that since the beginning. Horns up for FTB!
Avatar #42: I c y - added: 11/11/2004, 12:22 PM
that is true. i don't see why there u guys shouldn't give perfect for this song. Awesome by metallica. Still the best for me and i would rate this as No.1 tied with Nothing Else Matters. The lyrics of FTB is so much well-written by James. The lyrics make so much sense and to the point of addiction.
Avatar #43: I c y - added: 11/11/2004, 12:25 PM
Oh yea, 1 more thing, i liked the performance they done at Seattle. FTB is performed and Lars did a double bass pedal soo fast that it sounded more like heartbeat and Kirk did a very fast ending solo too. I also like Kirk's guitar very much. The distortion was mere clean and so much that it makes this song so classic and hardcore. Thumbs up for this song! and this song will still go on 100 million years later.
Avatar #44: Bliss From A Dead Embrace - added: 12/29/2004, 04:12 AM
This song is perfect in everyway but yes... they did bend the rules of metal... yet this like all thier old songs takes talent to play... it has solos and time changes... It has meaning to the lyrics... its beautiful.... My favorite song of all time... And when larrs played this song on the Live Shit Binge And Purge DVD he did a double bass roll through certain parts of the song that just sounded so amazing..... Long live the memories of metallica
Avatar #45: Machine - added: 01/11/2005, 04:59 PM
Best song Metallica has ever made. Also the third best guitarsolo I've ever heard. Right after David gilmour's Comfortably numb and Van Halen's Eruption.
Avatar #46: I c y - added: 01/17/2005, 08:09 AM
Yea Jester... That night defines that Metallica is proabably the best live band ever... And i mean it... Fade to Black never fails to impress me in every of their live concerts...
Avatar #47: sonic vendetta - added: 01/22/2005, 11:35 PM
Greatest song ever created since the inauguration of humanity.
Avatar #48: YeahOldRumpa - added: 02/20/2005, 05:25 AM
WOW!.. One of the best albums in the history, and Fade to Black is one of the best songs on the album... Just awsome
Avatar #49: purplepants69 - added: 03/09/2005, 12:21 AM
a great song on metallica's only great album...this song also has the only good lyrics metallica ever came up with
Avatar #50: Daemon721 - added: 03/12/2005, 11:12 PM
Ok, Purplepants, your just a faggot, throughly explained in your name. Metallica has made many great songs, and a few great albums, so shut the hell up.
Avatar #51: I c y - added: 04/03/2005, 01:31 AM
Haha, he made fun of you.
Avatar #52: joebob - added: 04/05/2005, 11:26 PM
anyone who thinks this album is metallica's best need some SERIOUS help
Avatar #53: dazzosheps - added: 04/13/2005, 05:18 PM
joebob is obviously about 14 and just heard of metallica and doesn't appreciate some of their classic stuff. This song is absolutely brilliant, not in my opinion, but in many others. I cant understand what you dont like about this song? Fool
Avatar #54: AmericanStandard - added: 04/24/2005, 09:10 PM
One of Metallicas greatest songs, and yes they have made many great songs but their new shit sucks. Ya cant beat the old speed metal.
Avatar #55: Jochem - added: 04/25/2005, 12:59 PM
"Haha, he made fun of you" He I read this exact comment somewhere. Uuh let me think. Right. PoopSrick Ninja made it on the Wish You Were Here page where it actaully made sence. Nobody here was making fun of anybody so shut up. And to Joebob, I'm a huge Metallica fan and have been listening to them for years and years and My favourite album has to be Ride The Lightning aswell, and I know a lot of people agree with me so shut up aswell
Avatar #56: 42147 - added: 05/07/2005, 04:38 PM
Joebob is right about one thing, Ride the Lightning certainly ain't Metallica's best, but it comes so damn close. I'd probably give that to Master of Puppets or ...And Justice for All.
Avatar #57: I c y - added: 05/11/2005, 12:59 PM
I'm with Cobain for this time because Fade To Black is my favouite since the past and even in the future. Just by listening to the ending solo, you will know what fade to black means...
Avatar #58: BundtCake87 - added: 06/23/2005, 12:11 PM
Greatest Metallica song ever.
Avatar #59: Problem_Child666 - added: 08/08/2005, 12:38 AM
Favourite Metallica song. One their deepest and most passionate songs.
Avatar #60: Rnote - added: 08/09/2005, 01:09 PM
Anyone else wanna die when they hear this?
Avatar #61: I c y - added: 09/25/2005, 10:30 AM
Me, when i'm fucking troubled.
Avatar #62: Tateno - added: 10/04/2005, 03:52 PM
classic song. my fav from metallica
Avatar #63: Cratic - added: 11/07/2005, 02:37 PM
What a song. A sheer masterpiece.
Avatar #64: 42147 - added: 11/21/2005, 12:32 PM
Classic. Need I say more?
Avatar #65: The4thHorseman - added: 02/07/2006, 08:46 PM
Amazing song, great gitars, this opened the doors for me towards Metallica
Avatar #66: I c y - added: 03/29/2006, 12:41 PM
This song is so perfect for soft parts and hard parts.
Avatar #67: 42147 - added: 06/29/2006, 09:11 PM
I recall this was the first time that fans accused Metallica of selling out.
Avatar #68: G-Unit06 - added: 07/15/2006, 07:00 PM
Unbelieveable Masterpiece!
Avatar #69: BundtCake87 - added: 02/06/2007, 10:58 PM
By far the best Metallica song and one of the best metal songs ever written.
Avatar #70: Zoso_Les Paul - added: 03/26/2007, 06:55 PM
Beyond words. Easily one of my all-time favorites
Avatar #71: Dirkie - added: 08/18/2008, 01:10 PM
One of the most legend songs ever written. Just never get old, the solo is enough to make anyone cry.
Avatar #72: celticwarlord422 - added: 09/11/2008, 03:51 PM
Easily one of the greatest songs in the world and in metal generally. I can't get enough of it.
Avatar #73: blackbird. - added: 10/10/2008, 05:45 AM
Really, really I'd say, startling song. Their first video, too, if I'm not mistaken. They did it their way and weren't like anyone else when they started, I'll give them that.
Avatar #74: me.and.7.trumpets - added: 07/28/2011, 05:29 AM
the best song of metallica....!!
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