FIRE ON FIRE
SAM SMITH
SONGWRITERS: SAM SMITH & STEVE MAC
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: LOVE GOES
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2020
Samuel Frederick Smith(born 19 May 1992) is
an English singer and songwriter. They rose to prominence in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosure's breakthrough
single "Latch",
which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart.
Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's
"La La La",
which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were
nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both.
Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour,
was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The
album's lead single, "Lay Me Down",
was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "Money on My Mind",
became Smith's second number one single in the UK. The third single, "Stay with Me",
was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on
the US Billboard Hot 100, while
their singles "I'm Not the
Only One" and "Like I Can"
reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual
Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New
Artist, Record of the
Year, Song of the
Year, and nominations for Album of the
Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
For Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song
"Writing's on the Wall",
the theme for the James Bond film Spectre (2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy
Award for Best Original Song. Smith's
second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was
released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes", reached number
one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. They
released the single "Promises"
with Calvin Harris, which
peaked at number one in the UK. Smith released "Dancing with
a Stranger" with Normani in 2019, which
reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the
Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and
followed it by releasing a string of commercially successful singles "How Do You
Sleep?", "To Die For",
and "I'm Ready"
with Demi Lovato; all of
which feature on Smith's third album, Love Goes.
Smith has won four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American
Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award through their career. Smith has been publicly gay since 2014 and genderqueer since
2017, and has used they/them pronouns since 2019.
"Fire on Fire" is a song by English
singer Sam Smith,
produced by Steve Mac. It was
co-written by Smith and Mac for the Netflix reboot of the 1972 novel, Watership
Down. "Fire on Fire" was released as a
single on 21 December 2018 through Capitol Records.
It reached top forty
in Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Ireland. The
song appears on Smith's third studio álbum Love Goes(2020).
My mother said I'm
too romantic
She said ‘You're dancing in the movies'
I only started to believe her
Then I saw you and I knew
Maybe it's ‘cause I got a little bit older
Maybe it's all that I've been through
I'd like to think it's how you lean on my shoulder
And how I see myself with you
I don't say a word
But still you take my breath and steal the things I know
There you go
Saving me from out of the cold
Fire on fire
Would normally kill us
But this much desire
Together we're winners
They say that we're out of control
And some say we're sinners
But don't let them ruin
Our beautiful rhythms
‘Cause when you unfold me
And tell me you love me
And look in my eye
You are perfection
My only direction
It's fire on fire
It's fire on fire
When we fight, we fight like lions
But then we love and feel the truth
We lose our minds in a city of roses
We won't abide by any rules
I don't say a word
But still you take my breath and steal the things I know
There you go
Saving me from out of the cold
Fire on fire
Would normally kill us
But this much desire
Together we're winners
They say that we're out of control
And some say we're sinners
But don't let them ruin
Our beautiful rhythms
‘Cause when you unfold me
And tell me you love me
And look in my eye
You are perfection
My only direction
It's fire on fire
Oh
It's fire on fire
Fire on fire
Would normally kill us
But this much desire
Together we're winners
They say that we're out of control
And some say we're sinners
But don't let them ruin
Our beautiful rhythms
Fire on fire
Would normally kill us
But this much desire
Together we're winners
They say that we're out of control
And some say we're sinners
But don't let them ruin
Our beautiful rhythms
‘Cause when you unfold me
And tell me you love me
And look in my eye
You are perfection
My only direction
It's fire on fire
You are perfection
My only direction
It's fire on fire.