Witness

Album: Baptized (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • Chris Daughtry wrote this song with his keyboardist Elvio Fernandes and American songwriter Claude Kelly. He recalled to The Hollywood Reporter: "Elvio had this track that he kept telling me about. At that point, I'd written 'Broken Arrows' and 'Baptized' with Claude and both songs had this kind of gospel feel. So when he said, 'Witness,' it's gotta be, like, 'Can I get a witness?' We both teamed up and had the chorus in 15 minutes and wrote the whole thing in a few hours."

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