Fade Into You Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I wanna hold the hand inside you
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth

You live your life, you go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go blind
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colored your eyes with what's not there

[Chorus]
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]
A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home

You put your hands into your head
And then its smiles cover your heart


[Chorus]
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
[Outro]
I think it's strange you never knew

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“Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star evokes the feeling of deep longing with its slow and repetitive melody, wrapped in sorrowful strings that pull the song’s tone back and forth between hope and despair. Tambourines gently jingle, barely audible, with clockwork precision, eventually rising past monotony and punctuating the song with a sense of hopeful yet elusive joy.

The musical arrangement as a whole is built around a 3/4 time signature, which essentially creates a rhythm that is based upon the number 3. It is the tambourine counting out the beat triplets while the kick drum and snare take turns marking the beginning of each triplet, creating a subdued and hypnotic rhythm.

The song appeared as the first track on the album So tonight That I May See and was written by lead singer and lyricist Hope Sandoval with music composed and produced by the band’s guitarist, David Roback.

While the song never made much of an impact on the music charts it became very well known and was often used in the soundtrack of television shows and films.

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