Lyrics to
Fade Away

This version of Fade Away was released by Bad Company in 1976.

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Fading colours, changing sounds
Shades of night come tumbling down
Bring tomorrow like yesterday
Fade away

Here I am, a wayward man
Following the light to a distant land
Come tomorrow, without yesterday
Fade away

High adventure I just begun
Fame and fortune got me on the run
Break off the way
Fade away, yeah

Oh yes I am a wayward man
Following the light to a distant land
Come tomorrow, without yesterday
Fade away

Oh fade away, fade away

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About Lyrics and Fade Away by Bad Company

When you decide to study the lyrics to Fade Away, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Bad Company. Some of the lyrics to Fade Away have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bad Company and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Fade Away if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Fade Away" means the words set to the music of Fade Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bad Company. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Fade Away and the lyrics to Fade Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bad Company who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fade Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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