FADE AWAY
oasis(Noel Gallagher) Lyrics


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When I was young
I thought I had my own key
I knew exactly
What I wanted to be
Now I'm sure
You've boarded up every door

Lived in a bubble
Days were never ending
Was not concerned
About what life was sending
Fantasy was real
Now I know much about the way I feel

I'll paint you the picture
'Cause I don't think
You live round here no more
I've never even seen
The key to the door
We only get what we will settle for

While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away away away
They fade away away away

Now my life has turned
Another corner
I think it's only best
That I should warn you
Dream it while you can
Maybe someday I'll make you understand

I'll paint you the picture
'Cause I don't think
You live round here no more
I've never even seen
The key to the door
We only get what we will settle for

While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away
While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away away away
They fade away away away




They fade away away away
Fade away away away

Overall Meaning

In this song, "Fade Away" by Oasis, Noel Gallagher takes a nostalgic look back at his childhood dreams and how they have faded away over time. The song starts with Noel reflecting on his childhood thinking he had his own key to the world and knew exactly what he wanted to be. However, as time passed, his dreams and aspirations faded away, and he now feels like all the doors have been boarded up. He reminisces about the days when he lived in a bubble and didn't care about what life was sending his way. He believed in fantasy, but now he knows more about the way he feels.


Noel then talks about how the dreams we have as children never last forever. They are replaced with the realities of adulthood and the compromises we make. He urges us to dream while we can and warn those around us. This is because he feels that people tend to settle for less than they are worth. We only get what we settle for, and it is up to us to realize our potential and make our dreams come true. The song ends with the repeated refrain that "the dreams we have as children fade away," emphasizing the theme and leaving a lasting impression on the listener.


Overall, "Fade Away" is a poignant song about growing up, losing our innocence, and letting go of our childhood dreams. Noel Gallagher's lyrics provide a potent reminder to hold onto our dreams and to strive for what we really want in life.


Line by Line Meaning

When I was young
In my youth, I was inexperienced and naive.


I thought I had my own key
I believed I had the secret to my future success.


I knew exactly what I wanted to be
I had a clear vision of my future aspirations.


Now I'm sure you've boarded up every door
Currently, I feel trapped, as if all opportunities have been closed off to me.


Lived in a bubble
I was sheltered from the harsh realities of life.


Days were never ending
My youthful days felt like they would never come to an end.


Was not concerned about what life was sending
I didn't worry about the future and what it would bring.


Fantasy was real
My unrealistic dreams felt very real to me.


Now I know much about the way I feel
I have grown and gained a better understanding of my emotions.


I'll paint you the picture
I will vividly describe the situation to you.


'Cause I don't think you live round here no more
I don't believe you can relate to my current struggles.


I've never even seen the key to the door
I don't even know what opportunities I've missed out on.


We only get what we will settle for
We only achieve what we feel we are capable of achieving.


While we're living the dreams we have as children fade away
As we grow older and face reality, our childhood dreams become unattainable.


They fade away away away
Our dreams fade further and further from our grasp.


Now my life has turned another corner
My life has taken a new direction.


I think it's only best that I should warn you
I believe I should caution you about the challenges you may face.


Dream it while you can
Pursue your aspirations while you still have the chance.




Lyrics ยฉ Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: FREDERICK TAYLOR, MELINDA BUSSE, NATHAN V. WALTON, SYLEENA N. THOMPSON

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@user-ip9yu7lp1q

Artist: Oasis
Album: Masterplan
Title: Fade Away

When i was young
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์–ด๋ฆด ์ ์—”
I thought i had my own key
๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์žˆ์„๊ฑฐ๋ผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€
I knew exactly what i wanted to be
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€
Now i'm sure
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด์   ์•Œ์•„.
You've boarded up every door
๋‚ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰ํ˜€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฑธ.


Lived in a bubble
๋ฌผ๋ฐฉ์šธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฟˆ์†์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„์˜จ
Days were never ending
๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊ฒƒ๊ฐ™๋˜
Was not concerned
์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค.
About what life was sending
๋‚œ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์‚ถ์—๋Š” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€
Fantasy was real
ํ™˜์ƒ์€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด์—ˆ์–ด
Now i know much
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด์   ์•Œ์•„
About the way i feel
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋Š๋ผ๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„์‹ค์ด๋ž€๊ฑธ.


I'll paint you the picture
๋‚œ ์–ด๋ฆด ์  ๋‚ด ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด๋„ค
'cause i don't think you live round here no more
์ด์   ๋”์ด์ƒ ๊ทธ ๋•Œ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์€ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ์—.
I've never even seen
๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋„ค
The key to the door
์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์†Œ์ค‘์•ˆ ์–ด๋–ค๊ฒƒ๋„
We only get what we will settle for
๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋Š” ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹จ๊ฑธ


While we're living
์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š”๋™์•ˆ
The dreams we have as children
์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋˜ ๊ฟˆ๋“ค์ด
Fade away
์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋„ค

They fade away, away, away
์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋„ค, ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋„ค, ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋„ค....


Now my life has turned
์ด์ œ ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ํ‹€์–ด
Another corner
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ถ์ง€๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด
I think it's only best
๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์—”
That i should warn you
๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด ์ตœ์„ ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ธ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.
Dream it while you can
๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฟˆ๊ฟ€์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๋•Œ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋„๋กํ•ด
Maybe someday
์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š”
I'll make you understand
๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋“์‹œ์ผœ์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•  ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ


I'll paint you the picture
๋‚œ ์–ด๋ฆด ์  ๋‚ด ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด๋„ค
'cause i don't think you live round here no more
์ด์   ๋”์ด์ƒ ๊ทธ ๋•Œ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์€ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ์—.
I've never even seen
๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋„ค
The key to the door
์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์†Œ์ค‘์•ˆ ์–ด๋–ค๊ฒƒ๋„
We only get what we will settle for
๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋Š” ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹จ๊ฑธ



@chachmusic8330

If anyone is interested to play it, here are the lyrics and chords (I've covered it with both Oasis and Noel acoustic version in a video ๐Ÿ˜‰) :
NOEL's version
Intro: A | A7M | Dsus2 | A | B7 |Dsus2

A
When I was young I thought I had my own key
A7M
I knew exactly what I wanted to be
Dsus2 A
Now I'm sure
B7 Dsus2
You've boarded up every door

Verse 2
A
Lived in a bubble days were never-ending
A7M
Was not concerned about what life was sending
Dsus2 A
Fantasy was real
B7 Dsus2
Now I know much About the way I feel


Bridge:
B7 Dsus2
Gonna paint you a picture
B7 Dsus2
'Cause I don't think you live round here no more
B7 Dsus2
I've never even seen The key to the door
B7 Dsus2
We only get what we will settle for

Chorus:
A E
While we're living
G6 Dsus2
The dreams we have as children
A
Fade away
E
While we're living
G6 Dsus2
The dreams we have as children
A
Fade away
E
While we're living
G6 Dsus2
The dreams we have as children
A
Fade away
E
While we're living

switch to LIAM's version
A7 A7 Cm, Dsus2 A B7 Dsus2

G6 Dsus2
The dreams we have as children
Fmaj7 Dsus2 A
Fade away, away, away
Fmaj7 Dsus2 A | A7 | Dsus2 | A | B7 |Dsus2
They gonna fade away, away, away

A7, A7, C#mโ€‹, Dsus2, A, B7, Dsus2

A
Now my life has turned another corner
Cm#
I think it's only fair that I should warn yer
Dsus2. A
Dream it while you can
B7 Dsus2
Maybe someday I'll make you understand

Pre-Chorus
Chorus



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@BeigeCoyote

everyone here right now is a true oasis fan

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๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

@Ram-2112

The will always have a special place in my music collection

@erurc9133

Sure

@hygori5295

Yeah

@uzumaki6759

Yea..its on 8k views now.im sure if its some big mainstream pop artist this would get 1m in just 1 hour

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@NemoCanoso

If an Oasis song have "Away" in the tittle you know it's gonna be awesome

@ronniewelsh9923

Awaysis

@auxmir1730

Wonderwall away

@charlieroberts993

Its the truth though, especially the riffa at the start

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