Lyrics to
Time Fades Away

This version of Time Fades Away was released by Neil Young in 1973.

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Fourteen junkies
too weak to work
One sells diamonds
for what they’re worth
Down on pain street,
disappointment lurks
Son, don’t be home too late.
Try to get back by eight
Son, don’t wait
till the break of day
‘Cause you know
how time fades away.
Time fades away
You know how time fades away.

All day presidents
look out windows
All night sentries
watch the moonglow
All are waiting till
the time is right
Son, don’t be home too late
Try to get back by eight
Son, don’t wait
till the break of day
‘Cause you know
how time fades away.
Time fades away
You know how time fades away.

Back in Canada I spent my days
Riding subways through a haze
I was handcuffed,
I was born & raised
Son, don’t be home too late
Try to get back by eight
Son, don’t wait
till the break of day
‘Cause you know
how time fades away.
Time fades away
You know how time fades away.

Thirteen junkies
too weak to work
One sells diamonds
for what they’re worth
Down on pain street
disappointment lurks.
Son, don’t be home too late
Try to get back by eight, eight
Son, don’t wait
till the break of day
‘Cause you know
how time fades away.
Time fades away
You know how time fades away.

Time fades away
You know how time fades away

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Neil Young has released many songs over the years besides Time Fades Away. Neil Young released songs from 1969 to 2007 spanning across albums like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Neil Young, After The Goldrush, Harvest, Journey Through The Past, Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night, Zuma, Long May You Run, American Stars & Bars, Comes A Time, Rust Never Sleeps, Hawks And Doves, Re-ac-tor, Trans, Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways, Landing On Water, Life, This Note's For You, Eldorado, Freedom, Ragged Glory, Harvest Moon, Lucky Thirteen, Sleeps With Angels, Mirror Ball, Broken Arrow, Silver & Gold, Prairie Wind, and Chrome Dreams II. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Neil Young.

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About Lyrics and Time Fades Away by Neil Young

When you decide to study the lyrics to Time Fades Away, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Time Fades Away have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Time Fades 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 Time Fades Away" means the words set to the music of Time Fades Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Young. 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 Time Fades Away and the lyrics to Time Fades Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Young who came here looking just for the lyrics to Time Fades Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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