Songfacts®:

• This song introduces Halestorm's Into the Wild Life album in an unexpected way. Guitarist Joe Hottinger explained to TeamRock: "When you know exactly who you are and what you want, and you don't give a f--k what anyone else thinks, to me that's living the wild life. That's the idea behind this record: you're whoever you want to be. Find yourself. Be yourself. Own it. So going in with Scream, it starts out rocking and then there's this keyboard part, and it almost sounds electronic. We thought it'd be hilarious to throw everyone for a loop into thinking this is going to be an electronic rock record, which would obviously be a weird thing for us to do."
• Hottinger explained the track's meaning: "Lyrically, this song is about living out loud and living your dreams out loud," he said. "Scream until they hear you. Live until they hear you. Make yourself heard. You're going to see a lot of that creeping into the songs on this record. And with the sequencing of the tracks, it's almost like a story. It wasn't written that way but it kind of worked out that way. And 'Scream' segues perfectly into 'I Am The Fire.'"