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DAUGHTRY - Baptized

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Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

Baptized Lyrics

It's safe to say I'm lost,
Without you in my arms,
So I call your name and I pray you might,
Come and watch over me like the pale moonlight,
Until the sun comes back around.

Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
Pull me in until I see the light,
Let me drown, let me drown, in you honey, honey,
In your love I wanna be Baptized.
Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
I wanna be baptized.

And the days and nights are cold,
Without your body to hold,
So I close my eyes hoping you'll appear,
Cause it feels like grace every time you're near, yeah,
Don't leave, until the sun comes back around.

Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
Pull me in until I see the light,
Let me drown, let me drown, in you honey, honey,
In your love I wanna be baptized.
Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
I wanna be baptized.

Take me down, take me down by the water,
Pull me in until I see the light,
Let me drown, let me drown, in you honey,
In your love I wanna be baptized.

Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
Pull me in until I see the light,
Let me drown, let me drown, in you honey, honey,
In your love I wanna be baptized.

Take me down, take me down by the water, water,
In your love I wanna be baptized,
Let me drown, let me drown, in you honey,
I wanna be baptized.

Writer/s: KELLY, CLAUDE / LARDIERI, JOHN / DAUGHTRY, CHRIS / JOHNSON, MARTIN / MENTORE, MICHAEL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Baptized

The opening song on Daughtry's fourth album also serves as its title track. Chris Daughtry explained the cut to The Hollywood Reporter : "It was one of the first songs written for the record and it's probably my favorite song on the album," he said. "I know it's going to raise questions and make people wonder if it's a Christian album or if it's a gospel album, and it's not. I hope people don't think it's sacrilegious because it's not used in the Christian sense of the word. The song is about being baptized and it has more of a sensual aspect and the record just felt like a fresh start. We just got our bass player [Josh Paul] back, he left for a while and we didn't know if he was coming back. And with the new member of the band, our keyboard player, it just feels like a new version of us."

DAUGHTRY - I'll Fight

DAUGHTRY - I'll Fight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

I'll Fight Lyrics

I wanna see you run
Anywhere you want
Never let the darkness hold you back
No fear of getting lost

I wanna see you fly
Way beyond the sun
Anything you're ever gonna dream
I pray that it will come

But if you ever fall down straight to the bottom
And you can't get back where you started
Any place any time
You gotta know for you I'll Fight
(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)

Where you wanna go
I'd love to take you there
Wish that I could make the road easy
I wish that life was fair
Don't wanna see you cry
Even when it rains
And I hope you don't forget this
You were born for better things

But if you ever fall down straight to the bottom
And you can't get back where you started
With no strength to stand
Gonna reach for your hand
When the going gets rough
Right when it's hurting I will be there
To help any burden
Any place any time
You gotta know for you I'll fight
(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
Any place any time you
Gotta know for you I'll fight

Anywhere you go
Your gonna find me
No matter what you need
If you ever fall down and you can't get back
If you lose your strength to stand

If you ever fall down straight to the bottom
And you can't get back where you started
With no strength to stand I'm gonna reach for your hand
When the going gets rough right when it's hurting
I will be there to help any burden
Any place any time
You gotta know for you I'll fight
(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
Any place any time
You gotta know for you I'll fight

Writer/s: DAUGHTRY, CHRISTOPHER A. / BUSBEE, MICHAEL JAMES RYAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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I'll Fight

Chris Daughtry penned this with the San Francisco songwriter and producer busbee, whose other credits include Timbaland featuring Katy Perry's "If We Ever Meet Again," Rascal Flatts' "Summer Nights" and Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side." The pair also penned together the Break The Spell tracks, "Gone Too Soon" and "Losing My Mind."

Daughtry explained the song's meaning to The Hollywood Reporter : "Lyrically, this song is kind of like a letter to my kids, all of them," he said. "No matter where you are, I'm always going to be Dad. I'm always going to fight for you."

DAUGHTRY - Long Live Rock & Roll

DAUGHTRY - Long Live Rock & Roll Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

Long Live Rock & Roll Lyrics

Well I was born
The year that disco died
And U2 was in high school
Thank the Lord that they survived
Got my first taste, on a Seger 45
And since that Kiss I rocked out
All day and partied every night

We still argue about who's better
Elton John or Billy Joel
We still wonder if Kurt really
Wrote the song she sang in Hole
No we'll never stop believing
That's the Journey of our lives
So won't you help me 'Pour Some Sugar'
On these memories tonight?

Sing it
Long live rock
Long live roll
Long live big guitars and music for the soul
Sing it
Don't give up, don't grow old
Long live crazy nights and records made of gold
Long live rock and roll

Summer of '96, I got my first guitar
I played it till my fingers said
"You're gonna be a star"
Grunge was everything, at least it was to me
A Marshall in my Chevy Sprint
Just running down a dream

We still argue about who's better
Motley Crew or G&R
We still can't believe Van Halen
Turned into Van Hagar
Now the record shops are gone for good
And no one seems to care
But me and you and all our friends
'Keep Living On That Prayer'

Sing it
Long live rock
Long live roll
Long live big guitars and music for the soul, sing
Don't give up, don't grow old
Long live crazy nights and records made of gold
Long live rock and roll

Went to bed in Cleveland
Woke up in Tennessee
No matter where I'll roll tonight
I'm chasing history

We still argue about who's better
The Beatles or The Stones
They're forever 27
Jimmy, Janis, Brian Jones
And we stand here in their memory
'Cause their songs, they still survive
So throw your lighters up
And, darling, sing with me tonight

Come on

Long live rock
Long live roll
Long live big guitars and music for the soul, sing
Don't give up, don't grow old
Long live crazy nights and records made of gold
Long live rock and roll

Long live rock
Long live roll
Long live big guitars and music for the soul, sing
Don't give up, don't grow old
Long live crazy nights and records made of gold

Long live rock and roll

Writer/s: DAUGHTRY, CHRISTOPHER A. / HOLLANDER, SAM S. / JOHNSON, MARTIN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Long Live Rock & Roll

This acoustic anthem is a humorously nostalgic ode to the good ole days. Chris Daughtry penned the song with Boys Like Girls frontman Martin Johnson and songwriter-producer Sam Hollander (aka, S*A*M), who is best known for his work with One Direction, Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes. It was one of five tracks that the trio penned for Baptized. Daughtry told The Hollywood Reporter : "I would have never picked up a guitar and wrote this song. I never would have gone the folk route. I just thought the irony of it was hilarious. Long live rock and roll and big guitars, and it doesn't have any loud guitars. It's all like this folky, country vibe, and very rootsy. I loved that."

The track looks at some age-old rock debates such as the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones, and Van Halen vs. Van Hagar. Daughtry told Rolling Stone the story of the song: "Martin Johnson and Sam Hollander approached me with this idea, and it was something I've never done before," he said. "Sam had this lyric: 'We used to wonder about who's better, Elton John or Billy Joel. And we still wonder if Kurt really wrote the songs she sang in Hole.' I was like, 'Wow, I've never done anything where I've referenced anyone in a song, especially…not in a negative light, necessarily, but something that's kind of a jab.' But it was funny, and I was like, 'Hopefully they won't come looking for me after this!'"

"I've never written anything like that," Daughtry continued. "People are so used to seeing this hard-ass face, everything is so serious, and if anybody hung out with this band they'd realize that is the last thing we are is serious! So this is a good thing, because no one's ever seen this side of me as a person and especially as a songwriter. My favorite line in the whole song is the Van Halen/Van Hagar thing. That's one of my favorite lyrical moments on this whole record."

DAUGHTRY - High Above The Ground

DAUGHTRY - High Above The Ground Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

High Above The Ground Lyrics

You and I both, we come from different worlds
I'm a small town kid and you're an uptown girl
We've both been hurt, we got a few scars
But it don't matter now, we're staring at the stars

When it comes to my heart you gotta catch and fall
Deep down in my soul I know that I would die
If I didn't have you how could I ever fly?
A hundred miles beyond the sky

It's feeling like we're High Above The Ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to?

It's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to now?

Remember that day, we knew it from the start
We've come a long way and we're gonna go far
I see the future in your eyes
Forever and always, you and I

It's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to?

It's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to now?

When we're so close to heaven
Then we gonna like this paradise
It's gonna be too hard to say
Goodnight yeah

It's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to?

It's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to?

Oh, it's feeling like we're high above the ground
It's feeling like we never coming down
'Til we want to
But why would we want to now?

Writer/s: DAUGHTRY, CHRISTOPHER A. / BUSBEE, MICHAEL JAMES RYAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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High Above The Ground

Chris Daughtry was inspired to write this song after returning from a long overdue break in Italy with his wife Deanna. He told The Hollywood Reporter : "It was the first time we had gone on a real vacation since we got married. It was the first time ever we went anywhere that it was just me and her, no kids, and it was Italy. She had always wanted to go there and we finally made it happen. It was one of those highs you never wanted to come down from. That was essentially our honeymoon."

DAUGHTRY - Witness

DAUGHTRY - Witness Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

Witness Lyrics

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Hollowed out and feeling uninspired
The question I keep asking you is what
Will it take to ease your worried mind
You worried mind

Now you're letting your confusion take control
And leading it down a dark and lonely road
Even that won't last forever
Just look around and see you're not alone
You're not alone

If you can't find love but you're still not giving up (Can I get a Witness?)
If you died at night but you still wanna live it up (Can I get a witness?)
And if the weight of the world is on you now
But you know you can turn it all around again
Can I get a witness?
Yeah
Can I get a witness?
Yeah

Does it feel like you're just wasting time
Here without a reason or a rhyme
The answer you've been looking for is
There any right before your weary eyes
Your weary eyes

If you can't find love but you're still not giving up (Can I get a witness?))
If you died at night but you still wanna live it up (Can I get a witness?)
And if the weight of the world is on you now
But you know you can turn it all around again
Can I get a witness?
Yeah
Can I get a witness?
Yeah

And if the weight of the world is on you now
But you know you can turn it all around again

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?

If you can't find love but you're still not giving up (Can I get a witness?))
If you died at night but you still wanna live it up (Can I get a witness?)
And if the weight of the world is on you now
But you know you can turn it all around again yeah
Oh
Can I get a witness?
Yeah
Can I get a witness?
Yeah

And if the weight of the world is on you now
But you know you can turn it all around again yeah yeah yea-yeah
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?

Writer/s: KELLY, CLAUDE / LARDIERI, JOHN / DAUGHTRY, CHRIS / FERNANDES, ELVIO / MENTORE, MICHAEL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Witness

Chris Daughtry wrote this song with his keyboardist Elvio Fernandes and American songwriter Claude Kelly. He recalled to The Hollywood Reporter : "Elvio had this track that he kept telling me about. At that point, I'd written 'Broken Arrows' and 'Baptized' with Claude and both songs had this kind of gospel feel. So when he said, 'Witness,' it's gotta be, like, 'Can I get a witness?' We both teamed up and had the chorus in 15 minutes and wrote the whole thing in a few hours."

DAUGHTRY - 18 Years

DAUGHTRY - 18 Years Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Baptized
Released: 2013

18 Years Lyrics

Sit down with an old friend
Like time it never stopped
From the cradle to the coffin
We drink until we drop
Yeah, we grew up on the same street
Small town under the hill, yeah
But dreams get lost and buried down
Deep inside the soil there, yeah

All day all night
Keep pressing rewind
All day all night
I remember
All day all night
Keep pressing rewind
All day all night
I remember

We were young, we were wild
We were halfway free
We were kids on the run
On a dead-end street
Looking back in the rear view mirror
You know the view used to be much clearer
But we'll laugh and we'll cry
Till there's no more tears
Yea tonight can we just hold on to those 18 Years
18 years

Some ran down the highway
To chase away their ghosts
Some frozen in the same place
This time inside their bones
Remember throwing TVs off the overpass onto the tracks, yeah
But the trains roll on through the small towns and never looked back, and yeah

All day all night
Keep pressing rewind
All day all night
I remember
All day all night
Keep pressing rewind
All day, tell me do you remember

We were young, we were wild
We were halfway free
We were kids on the run
On a dead-end street
Looking back in the rear view mirror
You know the view used to be much clearer
But we'll laugh and we'll cry
Till there's no more tears
Yea tonight can we just hold on to those 18 years
18 years yeah

Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on (To those 18 years)
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
18 years, 18 years, yeah

We were young, we were wild
We were halfway free
We were kids on the run
On a dead-end street
We were building a bridge
Out of broken dreams
We were crashing like cars
When we were 18

We were young, we were wild
We were halfway free
We were kids on the run
On a dead-end street
Looking back in the rear view mirror
You know the view used to be much clearer
But we'll laugh and we'll cry
Till there's no more tears
Yea tonight, can we just hold on to those 18 years

Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on (Oh yeah, those 18 years)
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
Can we just hold on?
Oh those 18 years

Writer/s: JOHNSON, MARTIN / DAUGHTRY, CHRIS / HOLLANDER, SAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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18 Years

This was inspired by one of Chris Daughtry's longtime best friends. He explained to The Hollywood Reporter : "He's a guy I grew up with, went to school with, lived with for a couple years. We were in my first band and he was the bass player. We kind of learned our instruments together. All the stuff that it talks about... we both worked at the saw mill with my dad. We did in fact throw a TV over the overpass. It was a tube television, just to see it explode on the railroad tracks. I don't endorse that behavior and no one was hurt in the process, but we did do it and I had to incorporate it. We had our first car wreck together. It was definitely the one that had to be the end of the record."