Burning House

The second single from Cam's debut EP, Welcome to Cam Country, this ode to love lost was released in a hurry after it generated a buzz on the syndicated Bobby Bones Show. It leapt from obscurity into the Top 20 of the iTunes chart in the 24 hours following Cam's performance.

The song describes a torched relationship where the only place the former lovers can be together is in her dreams. But the dream is of a burning house that Cam can't escape. The song was inspired by an actual dream Cam had the night before she was due to meet up with an ex at a party. She had split with him a couple of years previously in a discourteous manner and was going though in her mind how to apologize. The songstress drifted off to sleep with those thoughts in her head and dreamt her former beau's home was in flames with him inside. She rushed into the burning house, ready to die alongside him. The next morning, Cam skyped her songwriting partner Tyler Johnson in Los Angeles and recounted her dream. They started working on the song and Johnson later played the unfinished demo to Fun. and Bruno Mars producer Jeff Bhasker while the two men were moving furniture. Bhasker was struck by the melody and the image of a burning house. He came up with a chorus for the tune, and the trio finished it up at the producer's home studio. "A lot of times, a production might just be there to make up for anything that the song is lacking," Bhasker told Billboard magazine. "If you've got a great song, you let it shine, and I always personally try to write a song that stands on its own, that can just be played with a guitar and piano."

A crackling fire was found in a sound effects library, which Bhasker laid underneath the instrumentation. "It's not very overt at all," he said, "but I did kind of think that that needed to be on there."