🔥 Trending Metallica: Fade to Black (Live in London, England - July 3, 2026) - Lyrics and L

Metallica's "Fade to Black," a powerful ballad from their 1984 album Ride the Lightning, explores themes of depression, suicide, and existential despair. Here are the 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 left for me

Need the end to set me free

Things not what they used to be

Looking glass has altered me

Twisted, broken, still the same

In the end who is to blame?

(Chorus)

Fade to black

Suffocating, still I wait

Grasping for one last breath

Fade to black

No longer caring, don't you see?

My soul is torn, it's not for me

I'm not the same, I'm not the one

I'm not the one that you once knew

(Chorus)

Fade to black

Suffocating, still I wait

Grasping for one last breath

Fade to black

Yesterday a dream, a lie

Tomorrow's just a reason why

I'm not the one to stand and fight

The world has turned and left me here

(Chorus)

Fade to black

Suffocating, still I wait

Grasping for one last breath

Fade to black

Blackened is the end

Winter it will send

Chilling out the air

With the hate for me

(Guitar Solo)

(Chorus)

Fade to black

Suffocating, still I wait

Grasping for one last breath

Fade to black

This song remains one of Metallica's most introspective and emotionally charged pieces, often resonating deeply with listeners due to its raw honesty about mental anguish.