Blondie Fade Away and Radiate

From their 1978 album Pararell Lines

Lyrics:

Ooh baby, I hear how you spend night-time:
Wrapped like candy in a pure blue neon glow.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.

Ooh baby, watchful lines vibrate soft in brainwave time.
Silver pictures move so slow.
Golden tubes faintly glow.

Electric faces seem to merge.
Hidden voices mock your words.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.

Beams become my dream.
My dream is on the screen.
The beams become my dream.
My dream is on the screen.

Dusty frames that still arrive
Die in nineteen fifty-five.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.

The beam becomes my dream.
My dream is on the screen.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Blondie
• Fade
• Away
• Pararell
• Lines

[debi1830]

I first listened to this laying on my bedroom floor with the speakers either side of my head..... 32ish years later and nothing has changed. Best song on the album

[rls22]

Very very smart  and pretty song!!

[ravydavy66]

how could this be 33 years ago... what an awesome album.definitely stood the test of time

[chuyine]

frippertronics!

[ShadowChevap]

While listening to this, I imagine this: post-apo Earth, Sun is half way down in the sky, warm desert wind blows and the crew of the broken spaceship is sitting outside of their wreck, playing cards while this song plays on the radio. Blondie rocks everything.

[JTravis]

So THIS is the song that Nerf Herder stole the opening from, to use in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" theme? I *KNEW* I had herd it somewhere before, but never made the connection...

[kmac100]

@debi1830 agree with you there, this song completely blew me away - way ahead of its time, sounded really haunting and futuristic, i hadnt heard anything like it before - still love it.

[kennethj1956]

Watching grainy black & white TV in 1950's ; turn off the tv and it fades away and radiates a glow.

[Rush6477]

@CovenantOfLove How did you know I am a huge Blondie fan?!?!?

Check out Their tune named T-Birds. She sings about the Mayan's Qetzecoatel

[acidmanc00]

A timeless song

[CovenantOfLove]

I must come to beg for music again...It's quiet humiliating...thank you! Forever

[royalnaz1]

yeah this song is awesome I really feel it in my soul