Fire
The third track on Saint Cloud, shared as a single in January 2020.
Waxahatchee, from Saint Cloud (2020)
Crutchfield wrote it. Songfacts quotes her saying the idea and melody for "Fire" was dreamt up while driving over the Mississippi River from Memphis into West Memphis, Arkansas, and reads it as a conversation with herself rather than a love song; that reading is Songfacts's, not hers. Wikipedia says she described it as an anthem of self-acceptance and self-love. It was shared as a single in January 2020 with the album announcement, and the video shows her walking across the Memphis and Arkansas Bridge at sundown.
Setlist.fm lists it with 219 plays among her most-played songs, behind "Can't Do Much" (236) and "Lilacs" (220), and 2025 sets reportedly close with it. We did not check for covers or samples, and do not know whether our upload is the studio version or a live one.
Sources
- Saint Cloud (album), Wikipedia
- The meaning behind Fire by Waxahatchee, Songfacts
- Waxahatchee setlists, setlist.fm