“Straight Into The Fire” is a motivational house song about releasing emotions, especially the emotions from heartbreak.
The song features uncredited vocals from singer-songwriter Julia Michaels. She also contributed her vocals to “Daisy,” and co-wrote “Papercut”. The final version of “Straight Int...
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[Verse 1: Julia Michaels]
Take your dark days and send them to the sun and carry on, carry on
To every lover who ever did you wrong, move along, move along
To every dream that drowned midstream and made you small inside
Take your dark days and send them to the sun and carry on
[Chorus: Julia Michaels]
Let it go 'til you let go of all the anger
And all the words that made you hurt will burn like paper
Straight into the fire, straight into the fire
And let it go until the smoke is gone forever
[Verse 2: Julia Michaels]
Crack the windows and take the shutters down and carry on, carry on
Take just one seed and put it in the ground and move along, move along
Cause it's easy to hold on, but so hard to forgive
So take the dark days and send them to the sun and carry on
[Chorus: Julia Michaels]
Let it go 'til you let go of all the anger
And all the words that made you hurt will burn like paper
Straight into the fire, straight into the fire
And let it go until the smoke is gone forever
[Bridge: Julia Michaels]
Straight into the fire
Straight into the fire
Straight into the fire
[Outro: Julia Michaels]
I will not rest until I see
The other side
I will not rest until I learn
To say goodbye
Straight Into the Fire was written by Lindy Robbins & Mark Nilan & Zedd & Julia Michaels & Sam Martin.
Zedd released Straight Into the Fire on Tue May 19 2015.
This is the song on the new album that sounds the closest to what people would expect me to do — it has that huge vocal that makes you want to cry, in a great way. To me, certain things sound a certain color. A lot of reverb will always sound cold, which will always make me think blue. On this song,...
To promote the True Colors album, Zedd set up scavenger hunts in 10 cities across the United States to “find the most dedicated fans and invited” the 50 winners to one of several US sights including the Empire State building in New York City or the Grand Canyon to meet him and listen to the unmaster...
On True Colors, every song has its unique color expressing the feeling of the song and the color Zedd associates with it, because to him, “certain things sound a certain color.” This song represents the color orange, because its drop is “very energetic and very aggressive, kind of like fire, too.”