Fylfot or fylfot cross /ˈfɪlfɒt/ (FILL-fot), is a synonym for swastika or "tetraskelion." It is a cross with perpendicular extensions, usually at 90° or close angles, radiating in the same direction.
According to some modern texts on heraldry, such as Friar and Woodcock and Robinson (see below), the fylfot is upright and typically with truncated limbs, as shown in the figure at right.
The most commonly cited etymology for this is that it comes from the notion common among nineteenth-century antiquarians, but based on only a single 1500 manuscript, that it was used to fill empty space at the foot of stained-glass windows in medieval churches. This etymology is often cited in modern dictionaries (such as the Collins English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster OnLine).
Thomas Wilson (1896), suggested other etymologies, now considered untenable:
Hey yeah!
Woohoow yeaah
I don't wanna know
what you've been into lately
I am not gonna show
I don't care if you will hate me
can go on like you used to do
cuz everything's coming back to you
I'll be strong
I'll be strooooong
Come into the night with me
wherever I'll go you will follow
take a step and fight for me
wherever I'll go
I can make it alone
no I ain't coming home
I'll be a guarding star
that always shines for you
hey yeeah
Got to show them all
I am telling everybody
I will break that wall
you just never really got me
I get by, I will survive
emotions like this, yeah I feel alive
moving ooon
moving oooon
chorus:
Come into the night with me
wherever I'll go you will follow
take a step and fight for me
wherever I'll go
I can make it alone
no I ain't coming home
I'll be a guarding star
that always shines for you
Wherever I go
you will follow
cuz you never really got me
wherever I go
I stay aaaalive
you go on like you used to do
cuz everything's coming back to you
I'll be strong
I'll be strooooong
chorus x2:
Come into the night with me
wherever I'll go you will follow
(you will follooow)
take a step and fight for me
wherever I'll go
hey yeaah
Come into the night with me
wherever I'll go you will follow
take a step and fight for me
wherever I'll go
I can make it alone
No I ain't coming home
I'll be a guarding star
that always shines for you
(no I ain't coming home)
I'll be a guarding star