Fire & Soul

Artist: The Cranberries
Released on: Roses (Track #3)
Duration: 4:32

LYRICS

How to be unfaithful, how to be disgraceful
To lose yourself, to lose control, fall off the fence, fire and soul
To lose yourself, to lose control, fall off the fence where is your fire and soul
I’ll wait for you forever, I’ll wait for you forever
I’ll take you to my grave

Now in the beginning, how the room was spinning
Hold on to me, hold on to you, hold on to us is what we’ll do
Hold on to me, hold on to you, hold on to us is what we’ll do

I’ll wait for you forever
I’ll wait for you forever
I’ll take you to my grave (grave)

hu huhu, hu huhu, hu huhu
hu huhu, hu huhu, hu huhu

I’ll wait for you forever (hu huhu, hu huhu)
I’ll wait for you forever (hu huhu)
I’ll wait for you forever (hu huhu, hu huhu)
I’ll wait for you forever (hu huhu)

To lose yourself, to lose control, fall off the fence, fire and soul
To lose yourself, to lose control, fall off the fence where is your fire and soul

CREDIT INFORMATION

  • Music by Noel Hogan & Dolores O’Riordan
  • Lyrics by Dolores O’Riordan
  • Produced & Engineered by Stephen Street
  • Recorded at the MetalWorks Studio, Toronto (Canada) · April-May 2011
  • Published by Kobalt Music Ltd./Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd

MEANING

  • Introducing “Fire & Soul” when it was first played in London on the Roses Tour, Dolores explained “it’s a song about fidelity, you know, that old thing that happens 20 years into the old marriage”

NOTES

  • The track was written during the band’s hiatus in the mid 2000s, as Noel and Dolores continued to send ideas to each other.
  • “Fire & Soul” could very likely be the song Noel Hogan referred to in 2004 as “The Fall” when he told the Zombieguide team that the band had recorded four tracks with Stephen Street
  • There is another reference of a 2004 track called “Fall For Yourself” which could very likely correspond to the first demo of “Fire & Soul”
  • The first preview of this song was put online via The Cranberries official YouTube account on 13 October 2011.
  • In October 2011 Cooking Vinyl described this song as “soft and summery“
  • On 23 December 2011 another preview of this song was put online on the Australian iTunes store along with the other tracks of “Roses”
  • “Fire & Soul” was played live in concert for the first time during the “Roses Tour” in London on 2 October 2012.

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