Faded (Annotated) Lyrics

Chapter 5

James 5:1-3

Now listen, you rich people

Weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes

Your gold and silver are corroded

Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire

No sort of wealth compares to the riches stored up for us in Heaven

Inevitably, we will all die, and all we had on earth will matter no longer

In a heartbeat, all you have will be gone

The only forever is God

Here's "Faded"

Yeah

Take your gold, it's corrodin'

I feel it rotting my bones

Eat away at my heart

And my clothes

Until I'm chiseled in stone

Yeah

Well I don't want this

If it's not gonna last

None of it matters

It's all distant, in the past

Everything fades away

Nothing matters

It's all gone in a heartbeat

Give my heart a break

It's in tatters

I don't need these material things

Giving up my desire

For all your riches

Don't need it

It'll rot away

I don't want death's kisses

Puttin' me in my grave

Just forget me

Whatchu want me to say

When you reject me

All the money and fame will just leave me

So I don't need it

It'll rot my bones

Yeah

And it'll drive me to misery

I'm coming home

Home, home

Woah

(Home)

Woah

I'm coming home

Home

Everything fades away

Nothing matters

It's all gone in a heartbeat

Give my heart a break

It's in tatters

I don't need these material things

Giving up my desire

For all your riches

Don't need it

It'll rot away

I don't want death's kisses