The third single off of the album Break the Cycle, is a song that Aaron Lewis describes as a song about parental neglect. He himself believes that parents as a whole have forgotten how to do their job. Stating that he had no one to turn to when he was a child in an interview with Rolling Stone.
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[Verse 1]
I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
The thought is too much to conceive
[Pre-Chorus]
I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause
[Chorus]
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt, I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made
[Verse 2]
So where were you?
When all this I was going through
You never took the time
To ask me just what you could do
[Pre-Chorus]
I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became cause
[Chorus]
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt, I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made
[Bridge]
Oh, I never meant to fade
Away
I never meant to fade
[Chorus]
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt, I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made
[Outro]
I try to breathe...
Fade was written by Aaron Lewis & Mike Mushok & Johnny April & Jon Wysocki.
Fade was produced by Josh Abraham.