World On Fire – English Lyrics

• By: Daughtry
• Album: Dearly Beloved

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Daughtry's powerful track "World On Fire" to explore English that resonates with raw emotion and global themes. This song, with its evocative lyrics and hard-hitting rock sound, offers a unique opportunity to understand contemporary vocabulary and expressions used to describe significant world events and human reactions to them, making it special for language learners.

[English]

Going down like a dead man walking

One step from a body in a coffin

Just one, one of the fallen

Waking up to a blood moon, howling

Can't drown it out, even with the medicine

Tearing through me like a bullet of adrenaline

Arms heavy, face down on a death bed

Blame the gods while choking on the violence

In the end, silence is deafening

Can you hear the crowd like a thousand sirens?

In the night like thunder striking

The sickness is rising

The angels are crying

That's the sound of a world on fire

...

Stressed out, head trauma, took a beating

Takes more than a pill to numb the feeling

Bang, bang, no mercy for the healing

Oh, twenty dead without a fight, without a reason

Twenty more in a cop car, bleeding

All tryin' to win a war without a meaning

Can you hear the crowd like a thousand sirens? (lost in silence)

In the night like thunder striking (in a sea of silence)

The sickness is rising

The angels are crying

That's the sound of a world on fire

World on fire

...

World on fire

Arms heavy, face down on a death bed

Blame the gods while choking on the violence

In the end, silence is deafening

Can you hear the crowd like a thousand sirens? (lost in silence)

In the night like thunder striking (in a sea of silence)

The sickness is rising

The angels are crying

That's the sound of a world on fire

Fire

Yeah, can you hear the crowd like a thousand sirens? (lost in silence)

In the night like thunder striking (in a sea of silence)

The sickness is rising

The angels are crying

World on fire, world on fire, world on fire, yeah

World on fire, world on fire, world on fire

The sickness is rising

The angels are crying

That's the sound of a world on fire

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
fire /ˈfaɪər/ A1	noun - combustion producing heat and light verb - to set on fire; to shoot a weapon
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth and all its inhabitants
sirens /ˈsaɪrənz/ B2	noun - warning devices that make loud sounds
thunder /ˈθʌndər/ B1	noun - loud noise following lightning
silence /ˈsaɪləns/ B1	noun - complete absence of sound
violence /ˈvaɪələns/ B2	noun - behavior involving physical force intended to hurt or kill
angels /ˈeɪndʒəlz/ A2	noun - spiritual beings believed to act as messengers of God
sickness /ˈsɪknəs/ B1	noun - illness; disease
rising /ˈraɪzɪŋ/ A2	adjective - increasing in power, influence, or intensity
crying /ˈkraɪɪŋ/ A2	verb - shedding tears
dead /ded/ A1	adjective - no longer alive
bleeding /ˈbliːdɪŋ/ B1	verb - losing blood
drowning /ˈdraʊnɪŋ/ B2	verb - being overwhelmed
choking /ˈtʃoʊkɪŋ/ B2	verb - having difficulty breathing
deafening /ˈdefənɪŋ/ C1	adjective - extremely loud
war /wɔːr/ A2	noun - a state of armed conflict between different nations or states
healing /ˈhiːlɪŋ/ B2	noun - process of becoming healthy again
trauma /ˈtrɔːmə/ C1	noun - emotional shock following a stressful event
medicine /ˈmedɪsn/ A2	noun - substance used to treat illness
coffin /ˈkɒfɪn/ B2	noun - a box in which a dead body is buried