"Grapevine Fires" is a song by American

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, the fourth single from their sixth studio album, ''

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'', released February 3, 2009, on

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. The single peaked at number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and becoming the band's sixth single on that chart. "Grapevine Fires" was featured in the

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drama ''Heroes'' in the episode "

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", and it also appeared on the 2009

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, '' Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise''. The drumbeat of the song is modeled after the "Purdie Shuffle", although drummer Jason McGerr says it is more of an emulation, as opposed to a replication, of the famous drum pattern.

Music video

The video of the song is animated and created by Walter Robot. It features a semi-literal interpretation of the lyrics by showing a wildfire and its effect on the lives of the people in the video. The band members make a cameo appearance loading a van. The visual interpretation of the song in the video leaves out the imagery of the second verse of the song. The video was accepted into the

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where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Music Video.

Charts

References

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