If You Want Fire

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Terri says…

Might be, musically, my favorite track on the record. I had a vision for this from the moment we did the rough work tape when we wrote it. A “Petty-esq” swanky, sultry vibe. I asked Shannon Forrest to find his biggest, fattest snare drum, and lay into it without hitting one tom, and what his sounds brought to this track is the driving force.

The band really dug into this song, and you can hear it. It’s a song about the passionate kind of love that brings both sides of the coin along with it. When things are really really great, WOW, but when they are really really bad….watch out. With every gift comes a nightmare….that’s what this song is all about.

Lyrics

Written by T Clark/T Shapiro/J Richey

I got this dream I’ve been dreamin’
The perfect picture of love
Sparks and fireworks flyin’, almost too hot to touch
Then everything I wanted and then some
Suddenly walked in the room
I said I needed different but maybe I spoke to soon

It’s every kind of crazy I could ever imagine
A battle ragin between my head & my heart
But if you gotta have it all that madness and passion
Then you’ll learn
Ooo, you’ll learn
If you want fire
It better be worth the burn

We’re either laughin or cryin
Flyin high or runnin away
But in between the thunder & lightning
There’s always another day
Another day

It’s every kind of crazy I could ever imagine
A battle ragin ‘tween my head & my heart
But if you gotta have it all that madness and passion
Then you’ll learn
Ooo, you’ll learn
If you want fire
It better be worth the burn

Sometimes it feels all or nothin
Sometimes it’s nothin at all
But in between those moments it’s magic
That softens the fall

If you want fire
It better be worth the burn

If You Want Fire

Terri says…

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