Playing With Fire

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“Playing With Fire” is one of the few tracks on Tangled Up that paints a romance in a negative light. Rhett and featured vocalist Jordin Sparks take turns crooning about an… Read More

Sep. 25, 20151 viewer28.2K views

Playing With Fire Lyrics

[Verse 1: Thomas Rhett]
I know I should let it go
Take a different road
When I'm driving home
But I don't want to
Delete your number from my phone
Instead of calling
Asking if you're all alone
But I don't want to

[Pre-Chorus: Thomas Rhett]
Stay away
From your side of town
But it's too late
I'm in your drive right now

[Chorus: Thomas Rhett]
I don't know, why I don't
Put it out, baby
We kiss and the flames just get higher
But yeah, I know
When I hold onto you, baby
I'm all tangled up in barbed wire
I get burned, I don't learn
I'll be back, give it time
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy
But guess I like playing with fire

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[Verse 2: Jordin Sparks]
Ooh
I could find a spot to go hang out on Friday night
Where you are gonna be
But I don't want to, no
Yeah, I could let it end
Call it quits, call off all this on and off again
But I just don't want to

[Pre-Chorus: Jordin Sparks]
Yeah, that key
Is right under the mat
Come on in
Baby, let's strike that match

[Chorus: Thomas Rhett & Jordin Sparks]
I don't know, why I don't
Put it out, baby
We kiss and the flames just get higher
But yeah, I know
When I hold onto you, baby
I'm all tangled up in barbed wire
I get burned, I don't learn
I'll be back, give it time
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy
But guess I like playing with fire
Playing with fire

[Bridge: Thomas Rhett & (Jordin Sparks)]
So let's fire it up one more time (Fire it up one more time)
Baby, just put your lips on mine (Lips on mine)

[Chorus: Thomas Rhett & (Jordin Sparks)]
I don't know, why I don't
Put it out, baby
We kiss and the flames just get higher
(We kiss and the flames just get higher)
But yeah, I know
When I hold onto you, baby (Onto you, baby)
I'm all tangled up in barbed wire (All tangled up)
(I'm all tangled up)
I get burned, I don't learn
I'll be back, give it time (Give it time)
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy (Sounds crazy)
But guess I like playing with fire (Playing with fire)
Playing with fire
(Playing with fire)

[Outro: Jordin Sparks]
Playing with fire, huh

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“Playing With Fire” is one of the few tracks on Tangled Up that paints a romance in a negative light. Rhett and featured vocalist Jordin Sparks take turns crooning about an unhealthy, repetitive relationship that they can’t quite leave in the past.

The October 2016 deluxe edition of Tangled Up features a remix with Danielle Bradbery stepping in for Sparks.

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What did Thomas Rhett say about "Playing With Fire"?

Rhett told Billboard:

We wrote this song called ‘Playing With Fire,’ me and my dad [Rhett Akins] and Ashley Gorley. We knew we wanted a big female powerhouse on the song, but we didn’t know who. Our label president, Scott Borchetta, he had just met Jordin [Sparks] and her whole management team out in L.A. and said she was super nice. So we reached out to her team. They said yes and flew to Nashville, and she was the nicest person in the world and got in there and knocked the song out in, like, 30 minutes. I didn’t know this, but she had always wanted to make a country record, so I think singing on my record was kind of a bucket-list thing for her.

Sparks shared via Instagram after their first performance together:

Thank you for having me @thomasrhettakins! I had so much fun performing our new collab ‘Playing With Fire’ for the 1st time on the @iheartradio stage! Congrats on everything! Thomas' new album ‘Tangled Up’ is available now!

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