Higher (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Higher


Artist = Creed
from Album = Human Clay
Released = December 28, 1999
Format = CD
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Post-grunge
Length = 4 min 42 secs
Label = Wind-up
Producer = John Kurzweg
Chart position = * #7 (US)
** #1 (US Modern Rock, US Mainstream Rock)
** #5 (US Adult Top 40)
Reviews = none
Last single = "One" (1998)
This single = "Higher" (1999)
Next single = "With Arms Wide Open" (1999)"Higher" is the first single to be lifted from Creed's 1999 album, "Human Clay". Vocalist Scott Stapp actually wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming. [Citation
last = Edwards
first = Gavin
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title = Sea of Fire
newspaper = Spin (magazine)
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year = 2000
date = September 2000
url = http://passionbreedsfollowers.com/media/print/magazines/spin.shtml]

The song was written after Stapp used the technique to stop a recurring nightmare he had been experiencing in which he was pursued and killed by a gunman. In the dream, he would turn left at the end of a highway and hide under a bridge, only to be found by his assailant and shot. When he had studied lucid dreaming and tried the technique, he was able to turn right and escape the gunman. Stapp stated that after he wrote the lyrics, he never had the dream again."Higher" was Creed's major breakthrough hit which helped to place them firmly in the US pop music mainstream. It peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid 2000, and spent a staggering 57 weeks upon the survey, topping both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock tallies in the process, as well as charting in the top five on the Adult Top 40.

The song appeared in the feature film "The Skulls" and was used in the theatrical trailer for "Titan A.E".

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