Background and Composition
"Slow Fade" was written in the "light of the well publicised falls from grace of several high profile church leaders". According to lead vocalist Mark Hall: "Nobody falls, it's just a slow fade. It's a series of minor compromises until you're in a place you never thought you'd be, doing things you never thought you'd do and rationalising all of it". He continued by saying that: "As believers, as men, if we're not guarding our relationship with God, we're going down. There's too much going against us. If we're not careful, we're going to crash and burn".
"Slow Fade" is a song with a length of four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. According to the sheet music published by Musicnotes.com, "Slow Fade" is set in common time in the key of D major, with a tempo of 80 beats per minute. Mark Hall's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of A3 to the high note of G5. A ballad, "Slow Fade" is "a cautionary tale urging believers to make the right choices".
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