“We just went for it, and it felt real and dark and it felt like something that we were all experiencing, even then. “At the time, Australia was burning, and everything we looked at on the news or Instagram, was just negative, negative, negative, and we were just like, ‘ Man, the world’s on fire,'” Daughtry says, looking back on his new song. If art imitates life, then “World on Fire” was meant to express a slice of Earth as it was back in January of 2020 in point of fact, its colorful poetry all-too perfectly captures the everyday intensity, terror, and draining truths of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Only Daughtry isn’t pulling from some sort of fictitious imagination – apart from the angels crying, perhaps. Can you hear the cry like a thousand sirens? In the night like thunder striking The sickness is rising The angels are crying That’s the sound of a world on fire Evoking an end-of-days fatalism, the song finds Chris Daughtry and his longtime bandmates reeling through their own cinematic Armaggedon with a slew of heated electric guitars, heavy double bass drum kicks, and the kind of calamitous imagery one would expect from a Hollywood blockbuster. Released August 13 via Dogtree Records, “World on Fire” feels almost too prophetic. Can you hear the cry like a thousand sirens? World on Fire – Daughtry Going down like a dead man walking One step from a body in a coffin Just one, one of the fallen Waking up to a blood moon, howling Can’t drown it out, even with the medicine Tearing through me like a bullet of adrenaline Arms heavy, face down on a death bed Blame the gods while choking on the violence In the end, silence is deafening
Unrelenting and all-consuming, “ World on Fire” soars with feverish passion it’s the hard rock song we all need to hear right now. Daughtry’s first single of 2020 is an apocalyptic upheaval of seismic proportions – an intense reflection of the world we’re living in, and have been living through for quite some time now. I feel like I’m chasing the energy that I’m feeling in that moment, I really want that to transcend and make people feel something.Ĭhris Daughtry’s music has always hit hard, but never before has it felt this intense. It’s unrelenting and all-consuming – and though it’s not about the global pandemic, it all-too perfectly captures the intensity (and dread) of 2020.
All rights reserved.An apocalyptic upheaval of seismic proportions, Daughtry’s timely single “World on Fire” soars with feverish passion. “I understand the fear of ‘what if someone finds out and they’re going to reject me?’ Those are fears that heterosexual people don’t need to worry about, and I’ve walked it.”Ĭopyright © 2019, ABC Radio. Otherwise we’re not being authentic.” He adds that he “didn’t care” when Deanna told him about her sexuality.Īs for why she’s revealing this now, Deanna says she wants to help others. I hope you will love me, but if you don’t, that’s okay because I still have myself, and I do have people that love me as I am, and that’s all I want.’”Ĭhris adds, “It’s very important for people to know what the song is about and where it really came from. “I really wanted to be vulnerable and say, ‘This is who I am,’” she explains. As I built these walls up to protect myself, I was creating a prison, and I couldn’t fully experience life and people couldn’t fully experience me - and it’s all based on fear.”Īfter years of self-examination, Deanna says she’s finally accepted “as I am,” and that journey inspired the song’s lyrics. “And it was causing me to shut down so many good, beautiful things about myself. “I was hiding and shutting down a part of myself,” she explains. On the surface, the song carries a message of acceptance, but now the couple is revealing that it was actually inspired by Deanna coming to terms with her bisexuality.ĭeanna had only confided in a few people, including her husband, that she was once in a relationship with a woman, and she tells People magazine that she’d struggled for years with her sexuality. Tasia Wells/FilmMagic Daughtry‘s latest album Cage to Rattle features a song called “ As You Are,” whose lyrics were written by Chris Daughtry‘s wife Deanna.