Fade To Black

From MetallicaWiki

"Fade To Black" is the fourth track on the 1984 album Ride The Lightning. It was the first "ballad" by Metallica. The song begins with clean acoustic guitar, soon joined by melodic guitar solo and progressively becoming heavier.

The lyrics deal with suicide and were inspired by feelings of sadness and depression when Metallica's gear was stolen after a gig in Boston in the early 1984.

Jason Newsted, the long time bassist, played "Fade To Black" during his very last performance as a member of Metallica at My VH-1 Music Awards in November 2000.

It has been played occasionally on the World Magnetic Tour and is on the Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México live DVD.

Lyrics

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