Inside the Fire (song)

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"Inside the Fire"
Song

"Inside the Fire" is a song by American heavy metal band Disturbed that song was released as the first single from their fourth studio album, Indestructible on March 25, 2008 as a digital download. The song features suicidal themes, and, in May 2008, a music video was unveiled for the song. However, due to the involvement of suicidal themes in the uncensored music video, an edited version of the song and music video was released in which these themes are absent.

On March 24, 2008, "Inside the Fire" debuted on more than sixty radio stations, quickly showing up on many significant music charts and reaching number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Chart. The single became nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock Performance" category.

Interpretation

According to vocalist David Draiman, the song is "a real racy song... about me standing over the body of my girlfriend, who just killed herself, and the Devil is standing over me, whispering in my ear to kill myself."

Commenting further for The Pulse of Radio, Draiman stated, "it is based on a true story of my own where, when I was about 16 or so, I had a girlfriend of mine commit suicide," he said. "It was an unbelievably horrific and painful experience, and it was cathartic to make the song, and it really took me having a certain mindset to do it, and I had to wait 'til I was ready."

Track listing

Compact disc

All tracks are written by Disturbed

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inside the Fire"	3:52
Total length:		3:52

7" vinyl

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inside the Fire"	3:52
2.	"Perfect Insanity"	3:59
Total length:		7:51

Digital download

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inside the Fire"	3:52
Total length:		3:52

United Kingdom digital download

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inside the Fire"	3:52
2.	"Parasite"	3:25
3.	"Stricken (Live At the Riviera)"	4:27
Total length:		11:44

Music video

A music video for "Inside the Fire" premiered on May 2, 2008. A suicide hotline phone number appears before the video, due to its nature and content, along with a message from vocalist David Draiman regarding suicide. An "all-performance" version of the video premiered later, featuring no dark themes or messages. The video begins with a girl (assumed to be Draiman's girlfriend) hanging herself in her apartment. Draiman arrives at the apartment, to find her dead. He cuts her down and places her body on a couch, taking in what has happened. He then cleans her in a bathtub. He goes back out to the room in which she hanged herself, and looks out of the door, making sure no one is there. Mentally stricken, he takes a gun placed on the wall and aims the barrel into his own mouth and starts screaming. The camera then fades out and back in, showing Draiman restrained by a straitjacket, showing that he could not bring himself to commit suicide. The edited version of the music video, which does not feature suicidal themes, depicts Disturbed playing in a dark room, with the band members sometimes covered in blood.

Chart positions

On March 24, 2008, "Inside the Fire" debuted on more than sixty radio stations. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and number four on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks, respectively. It also peaked at number seventy-three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number sixty-seven on the Billboard Pop 100. The song is also Disturbed's sixth number one hit on Mediabase's Active Rock charts.

Chart (2008)	Position
The Billboard Hot 100	73
Hot Canadian Digital Singles	66
Hot Digital Songs	49
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
Hot Modern Rock Tracks	4
Pop 100	67

Personnel

• David Draiman - vocals] co producer
• Dan Donegan - guitars, electronics, producer
• John Moyer - bass guitar
• Mike Wengren - drums, co producer

See also

• List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)