Fade Into You: A Song, A Name, A Mirror
There are songs that don’t just play.
They hover.
They dissolve into your breath, your bones, your memory.
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star is one of those songs for me.
It surfaced again recently, quietly, the way it always does. Soft, haunting, like someone whispering from the edge of a dream. And this time, I sang it, because I needed to, and frankly, I wanted to.
Music has always been a kind of mirror for me. Revealing layers I didn’t know were there.
It lets me feel things that words alone can’t unlock.
Sometimes I can’t even get through a song without crying, not because I’m sad, but because something inside finally gets permission to move.
That’s the thing about music, when you let it move through you.
It bypasses the filters of ego. It asks nothing.
It simply offers presence.
Pearl and the Song That Found Her
There’s another thread here.
When I was choosing a name for my dog, two names kept circling: Mazzy and Pearl.
I told myself I’d know the right name when the moment came. And when I pulled into park my car on my way to pick her up, I stepped out of the car and saw a restaurant sign right in front of me: Pearl Restaurant.
That was the sign. I named her Pearl.
A few weeks later, I looked up the meaning of the word Mazzy.
Something I hadn’t done before.
It means Pearl.
That moment landed in me like a quiet truth: no matter which name I had chosen, the meaning would have found me.
Just like the song.
Just like she did.
Pearl is my shadow, in the most loving way.
She’s the softness I return to, the presence beside me when I don’t even know I need grounding.
She carries that Fade Into You energy, too. Quiet (sometimes). Devoted. Deeply felt.
What Music Moves in You?
This moment, this song, this name isn’t just a story. It’s a mirror.
What if Pearl is both the reminder and the result?
The symbol of what softens me. The medicine that keeps me close to centre when life feels heavy.
A reflection of my own quiet strength.
And Fade Into You, this song, became the portal to feel all of it.
So today, I shared it.
Just a few verses.
As a soul remembering itself.
If music has ever held you through a moment, helped you feel something you couldn’t say, or reminded you of who you really are…
This is for you.
