Discover the story of the song > I’m On Fire – AWOLNATION

The song is about a man (referred as "he") who is attracted to a girl who may already have a partner (referred as "her daddy"). He feels a strong desire for her ("I'm on fire") and believes he can do more for her than her current partner ("Can he do to you the things that I can't do?"). He compares the feeling of missing her to "a knife...cut[ting] a six inch valley through the middle of his soul" and says that only she can satisfy him ("Only you can cool my desire").