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“Believer” thunders around a percussive backbeat and expressive vocals from Dan Reynolds to bring about a message of embracing pain, and using it as a tool for personal growth. It marks the end of Imagine Dragons' self-imposed hiatus that started in 2016. The song acts as the title for their documen...
[Verse 1]
First things first
I'ma say all the words inside my head
I'm fired up and tired of
The way that things have been, oh-ooh
The way that things have been, oh-ooh
[Verse 2]
Second things second
Don't you tell me what you think that I could be
I'm the one at the sail
I'm the master of my sea, oh-ooh
The master of my sea, oh-ooh
[Pre-Chorus]
I was broken from a young age
Taking my sulkin' to the masses
Writing my poems for the few
That look at me, took to me, shook at me, feelin' me
Singing from heartache from the pain
Taking my message from the veins
Speaking my lesson from the brain
Seeing the beauty through the...
[Chorus]
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
Pain! You break me down, you build me up
Believer, believer
Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from…
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
[Verse 3]
Third things third
Send a prayer to the ones up above
All the hate that you've heard
Has turned your spirit to a dove, oh-ooh
Your spirit up above, oh-ooh
[Pre-Chorus]
I was chokin' in the crowd
Building my rain up in the cloud
Falling like ashes to the ground
Hoping my feelings, they would drown
But they never did, ever lived, ebbin' and flowin'
Inhibited, limited 'til it broke open and rained down
It rained down, like…
[Chorus]
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
Pain! You break me down, you build me up
Believer, believer
Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from…
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
[Verse 4]
Last things last
By the grace of the fire and the flames
You're the face of the future
The blood in my veins, oh-ooh
The blood in my veins, oh-ooh
[Pre-Chorus]
But they never did, ever lived, ebbin' and flowin'
Inhibited, limited 'til it broke open and rained down
It rained down, like…
[Chorus]
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
Pain! You break me down, you build me up
Believer, believer
Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from…
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
Believer was written by Dan Reynolds & Wayne Sermon & Ben McKee & Daniel Platzman & Robin Fredriksson & Mattias Larsson & Justin Tranter.
Believer was produced by Mattman & Robin.
Imagine Dragons released Believer on Wed Feb 01 2017.
On February 1, 2017, Imagine Dragons sent out a tweet about the song.
Later that same month, writer and vocalist Dan Reynolds spoke to Radio.com in regards to this song:
‘Believer’ to me, is the first song I’ve ever written in my career that I could stand back and say, that is only Imagine Dragons...
There’s this incredible artist called Beeple. We found him online and just loved his stuff. I had a visual in my mind of what ‘Believer’ represented for me…you see this guy wandering the darkness of space—it’s kind of ’80s—I’ve always been a huge ’80s nerd—and he’s arriving at a place of color and b...
Believer logged over a year (52 weeks) on the Hot 100. With this, Imagine Dragons set a new Billboard record for the most songs to be on the Billboard Hot 100 for over a year (3) alongside “Radioactive” and “Demons.”
On May 20, 2018, “Believer” won Top Rock Song at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards. The band took home 4 awards total that night.
The first man is frontman Dan Reynolds as the song is about him overcoming pain in his life.
The other man is Swedish boxer Dolph Lundgren, known most popularly by his role of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (1985).