"Fade to Black" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica from their second album, Ride the Lightning (1984). It was ranked as having the 24th best guitar solo ever by Guitar World readers.[1] It is one of Metallica's best-known songs.

The song is featured as a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero: Metallica.

The song peaked at #100 on Swiss Singles Chart in 1984 [2].

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
Can't 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, *Goodbye*

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