Fading Like a Flower

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"Fading Like a Flower"
"Fading Like a Flower" cover
Single by Roxette
Released 1991
Genre Pop
Length 03:51
Writer(s) Per Gessle
Chart positions
Roxette singles chronology
"Joyride"
(1990)
"Fading Like a Flower"
(1991)
"The Big L"
(1991)

"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)," written by Per Gessle, was the second single released from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1991 album Joyride. In July 1991, the song spent a week at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

The song was remixed by the Dancing DJs in 2005 and charted at #18 in the UK.

The music video was shot mostly in Gamla stan, Stockholm, Sweden.

[edit] Musical Analysis

Piano based, in the key of F.

"I Remember You" was the B-side for this single in the U.S.

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