Secrets (Your Fire)

**"Secrets (Your Fire)"** is a song by Magdalena Bay. It was released on August 11, 2021 as the second single from their debut album *Mercurial World.*

## Composition

"Secrets (Your Fire)" is composed in the key of B♭ minor. The song's tempo is 108 beats per minute; in common time.

It features saxophone by Giacomo Cazzaro & Juan Ignacio Varela. This is usually replaced by a guitar solo during live performances.

*"Secrets is about interconnectivity, privacy, and digital anxiety. It’s also about a need to keep sharing, to keep giving up more and more of yourself to faceless strangers in the hopes of making friends or fans."* - Magdalena Bay, Stereogum

*"Secrets started with a lil demo Mica made, it was a sketch of the vibe and had the chorus melody and some lyrics about secrets or somethin, brought it to Matt and we fleshed out the rest! It was kinda all done in a day or two in a blur of Matt obsessing over the little production details and trying to come up with the perfect chord progression for the verse."* - Magdalena Bay, Indieheads Reddit AMA

*"Basically I liked the tone of the bass played with fingers but also liked the attack of the bass played with the pick. So I kept in both layered, but super high passed the pick bass so you could only really hear the attack of it."* - Matt Lewin, Indieheads Reddit AMA

## Live Performances

The song's debut live performance was at El Cid in Los Angeles on October 8, 2021. It was performed on every stop of *The Mercurial Tour.*

It was performed during a livestream on November 16, 2021.

A live performance for Artists Den's *Live from My Den* series was uploaded to YouTube on February 1, 2022. It features Nick Villa on drums.

## Lyrics

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Secrets

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I don’t wanna tell you everything about me

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I don’t wanna feed more oxygen to

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Your fire, your fire

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La la la la la

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Online, anytime

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Getting lost again

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Worldwide, a paradigm

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Make another friend

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You think you know me

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Wanna show me that you’re super in the know!

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Getting lost again

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But I might lose my mind

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La la la la la

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Secrets

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I don’t wanna tell you everything about me

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I don’t wanna feed more oxygen to

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Your fire, your fire

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La la la la la

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Sickness

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I just need to give you everything about me

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I don’t need to feed more oxygen to

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Your fire, your fire

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La la la la la

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One time, two more times

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Getting lost again

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You’re like just what I like

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Make another friend

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You think you know me

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Wanna show me that you’re super in the know!

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Getting lost again

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My third eye prototype

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(Pull me into your world)

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Secrets

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I don’t wanna tell you everything about me

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I don’t wanna feed more oxygen to

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Your fire, your fire

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La la la la la

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Sickness

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I just need to give you everything about me

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I don’t need to feed more oxygen to

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Your fire, your fire

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La la la la la

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We’re worldwide!

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I want all your secrets

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You’re not gonna get my secrets

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No secrets anymore...

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