Lyrics

Mother teach me how to walk again
Into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark

Mother teach me how to walk again
Milk and honey so intoxicating
Into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the night I yearn for comfort

Open the doors that lead on into Eden
Don’t want no cheap disguise
Follow the signs marked back to the beginning
No more compromise

And into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the night
I yearn for comfort

Free the water that carries me to sea
You I see as my security

Into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
Oh, I am the spark
Into the night
I yearn for comfort

I will stare at the sun until its light doesn’t blind me
I will walk unto the fire ’til its heat doesn’t burn me
And I will feed the fire

Into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the night
I yearn for comfort

Into the fire
Into the fire
Into the fire
I’m reunited
Into the fire
Oh, I am the spark
Into the night
I yearn for comfort
Into the fire
Into the fire
Into the fire, into the night, into the fire

 

Appears on

Solace (1991)
Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff (1996)
Mirrorball: The Complete Concert (2006)
Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan (2008)
The Essential Sarah McLachlan (2013)

Video Collection 1989-1994 (1995)
Mirrorball DVD (1999)
Video Collection 1989-1998 (2000)

Into The Fire (single)
Vox (single)

 

Versions

Album Version
from “Solace”
Track length 3:34

Live: Mirrorball The Complete Concert
from “Mirrorball: The Complete Concert”
Track length: 3:46

Extended Remix
from “Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff”
Track length: 5:34

Extended Remix
from “Into The Fire” (Single Promo)
Track length: 6:00

John Fryer Mix
from “Into The Fire” (Single Promo)
Track length: 3:32

Dub Version
from “Into The Fire” (Single Promo)
Track length: 4:45

 

Compilations

Credits

Vocals: Sarah McLachlan
Drums: Paul Brennan
Bass: Daryl Exnicious
Organ, Keyboards, Electric Guitars: Pierre Marchand

 

Collaborations

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Trivia/Notes

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Sarah says

“It’s sort of about metamorphosis, going through changes…Understanding things you can’t understand and getting over them and going on.”
– WDRE radio in NY, during an interview in Vancouver, B. C.

“It’s back to the womb, back to simplicity, yearning for what we can’t have, what we’ve lost, trying to find that spark that’ll keep us happy and complete.”
– The Vancouver Sun, 19 August 1991

 

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