“The Fire Went Out” was originally written for Antichrisis’ lost album “The Legacy Remains”, but the original version sounded slightly different from the light pop ballad that this song has turned into now.
In the beginning, “The Fire Went Out” sounded like a big American road movie soundtrack: very epic, definitely massive and — not to put too fine a point on it — rather pompous. Jens, our producer in the days of the “The Legacy Remains” sessions, never liked the song as he considered it to be a bit on the cheesy side, but I always had a soft spot for these kind of sentimental love ballads dealing with broken hearts and all that stuff, hence I was rather glad when Ayuma asked me a few years later if she could give that song a try as she liked “The Fire Went Out” very much, too.
To cut a long story short: these vocals that Ayuma came up with sounded so gentle and smooth that the old arrangement somehow didn’t fit any longer — and so I worked out a completely new arrangement sounding much more suitable for a song that deals with getting abandoned and trying to find out if a love that fell to bits so easily maybe could have been an illusion right from the start.
All instruments by Sid
All vocals by Ayuma
Music and lyrics by Sid
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