An Analysis of Meaning Properties and Relation in teh Paramore's Aong Album Brand New Eyes

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APPENDIX

1. Paramore - Careful Lyrics

I settled down

A twisted up frown

Disguised as a smile, well

You would've never known

I had it all

But not what I wanted

'Cause hope for me

Was a place uncharted

And overgrown

You'd make your way in

I resisted just like this

You can't tell me to feel

The truth never set me free

So, I did it myself

You can't be too careful anymore

When all that is waiting for you

Won't come any closer

You've got to reach out a little more

More

More, more

Open your eyes,

Like I opened mine

It's only the real world.

A life you will never know

Shifting your weight

To throw off the pain

Well you can ignore it

But, only for so long

You look like I did

You resist me just like this

You can't tell me to heal

And, it hurts remembering

How it felt to shut down

You've got to reach out a little more

More

More, more

The truth never set me free

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You've got to reach out

2. Paramore - Ignorance Lyrics

If I'm a bad person, you don't like me

Well I guess I'll make my own way

It's a circle, a mean cycle

I can't excite you anymore

Where's your gavel? Your jury?

What's my offense this time?

You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me

Well sentence me to another life

Don't wanna hear your sad songs

Don't wanna feel your pain

When you swear it's all my fault

'Cause you know we're not the same (no)

We're not the same (no), Oh we're not, the same

Yeah we're friends who stuck together

We wrote our names in blood

But I guess you can't accept that

The change is good (hey), it's good (hey), it's good

Well you treat me just like

Another stranger

Well it's nice to meet you, Sir

I guess I'll go

I best be on my way out

You treat me just like

Another stranger

I guess I'll go

Ignorance is your new best friend

This is the best thing, that could've happened

Any longer and I wouldn't have made it

It's not a war no it's not a rapture

I'm just a person but you can't take it

The same tricks that, that once fooled me

They won't get you anywhere

I'm not the same kid, from your memory

Well now I can fend for myself

Don't wanna hear your sad songs

Don't wanna feel your pain

When you swear it's all my fault

'Cause you know we're not the same (no)

We're not the same (no), Oh we're not, the same

Yeah we used to stick together

We wrote our names in blood

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The change is good (hey), it's good (hey), it's good

Another stranger

I guess I'll go

Another stranger

I guess I'll go

Ignorance is your new best friend

Another stranger

I guess I'll go

Another stranger

I guess I'll go

Can't be too careful anymore

You've got to reach out

More

More, more

3. Paramore - Playing God Lyrics

Can't make my own decisions

Or make any with precision

Well maybe you should tie me up

So I don't go where you don't want me

You say that I been changing

that I'm not just simply aging

Yeah how could that be logical?

Just keep on cramming ideas down my throat

You don't have to believe me

But the way I, way I see it

Next time you point a finger

I might have to bend it back

Or break it, break it off

I'll point you to the mirror

If God's the game that you're playing

Well we must get more acquainted

Because it has to be so lonely

To be the only one who's holy

It's just my humble opinion

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You don't deserve a point of view

If the only thing you see is you

You don't have to believe me

This is the last second chance

(I'll point you to the mirror)

I'm half as good as it gets

I'm on both sides of the fence

Without a hint of regret

I'll hold you to it

I know you don't believe me

I know you won't believe me

4.Paramore - Brick by Boring Brick Lyrics

She lives in a fairy tale

Somewhere too far for us to find

Forgotten the taste and smell

Of the world that she's left behind

It's all about the exposure the lens I told her

The angels were all wrong now

She's ripping wings off of butterflies

Keep your feet on the ground

When your head's in the clouds

Well go get your shovel

And we'll dig a deep hole

To bury the castle, bury the castle

Ba da ba da ba

So one day he found her crying

Coiled up on the dirty ground

Her prince finally came to save her

And the rest you can figure out

But it was a trick

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Well make sure to build your house brick by boring brick

or the wolf's gonna blow it down

Keep your feet on the ground

When your head's in the clouds

Well you built up a world of magic

Because your real life is tragic

Yeah you built up a world of magic

If it's not real

You can't hold it in your hand

You can't feel it with your heart

And I won't believe it

Well if it's true

You can see it with your eyes

Even in the dark

And that's where I want to be, yeah

Go get your shovel

We'll dig a deep hole

Go get your shovel

We'll dig a deep hole

Ba da ba da ba...

5.Paramore - Turn It Off Lyrics

I scraped my knees while I was praying

And found a demon in my safest haven

Seems like it's getting harder to believe in anything

Than just to get lost in all my selfish thoughts

I wanna know what it'd be like

To find perfection in the pride

To see nothing in the light

But turn it off in all my spite, in all my spite

I'll turn it off

And the worst part is, before it gets any better

We're headed for a cliff

Then in the free fall I will realize

I'm better off when I hit the bottom

The tragedy it seems unending

I'm watching everyone I looked up to breaking, bending

Taking shortcuts and false solutions

Just to come out the hero

Well I can see behind the curtain

The wheels are cranking turning

It's all wrong the way we're working

Towards a goal, that's nonexistent, it's nonexistent

But we just keep believing

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I wanna know what it'd be like

To find perfection in my pride

To see nothing in the light

And turn it off in all my spite, in all my spite

I'll turn it off

Just turn it off

Again

Again, again

And in the free fall I will realize

6.Paramore - The Only Exception Lyrics

When I was younger I saw my daddy cry

And curse at the wind

He broke his own heart and I watched

As he tried to reassemble it

And my momma swore that she would

Never let herself forget

And that was the day that I promised

I'd never sing of love if it does not exist

But, Darling, you are, the only exception

You are, the only exception

Maybe I know somewhere

Deep in my soul that love never lasts

We've got to find other ways

To make it alone keep a straight face

And I've always lived like this

Keeping a comfortable, distance

Up until now I had sworn to myself

That I'm content with loneliness

'Cause none of it was ever worth the risk

Well you are, the only exception

You are, the only exception and I

I've got a tight grip on reality but I can't!

Let go of what's in front of me here!

I know you're leaving in the morning when you wake up!

Leave me with some kind of proof if not a dream, but Oh-Oh-Oh!

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And I'm on my way to believing

Oh and I'm on my way to believing

7.Paramore - Feeling Sorry Lyrics

We still live the same town, well don't we?

But I don't see you around anymore.

I go to all the same places

Not even a trace of you.

Your days are numbered at 24.

And I'm getting bored waiting 'round for you.

We're not getting any younger.

And I won't look back 'cause there's no use.

Its time to move forward.

I feel no sympathy.

You live inside a cave

You barely get by, the rest of us are trying

There's no need to apologize

I've got no time for feeling sorry.

Well I try not to think of what might happen.

When your reality it finally cuts through.

Well as for me I got out and I'm on the road.

The worst part is that this, this could be you.

You know it too.

You can't run from your shame.

You're not getting any younger.

Time keeps passing by

but you wave it away.

Its time to roll over.

I feel no sympathy.

You live inside a cave.

You barely get by, the rest of us are trying.

All the best lies

they are told with fingers tied.

So cross them tight.

Won't you promise me tonight.

If its the last thing you do

you'll get out.

I feel no sympathy.

I've got no time, I've got no time.

I feel no sympathy.

I've got no time.

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8.Paramore - Looking Up Lyrics

Things are looking up

Oh, finally

I thought I'd never see the day

When you'd smile at me

We always pull through

Oh, when we try

I'm always wrong

But you're never right

Oh, you're never right

Honestly, can you believe

We crossed the world while it's asleep?

I'd never trade it in

'Cause I've always wanted this and

It's not a dream anymore, no

It's not a dream anymore

It's worth fighting for

Could have given up so easily

I was a few cheap shots away

From the end of me

Taken for granted

Almost everything

That I would have died for

Just yesterday

God knows the world doesn't need another band

Whoa, oh, oh

But what a waste it would've been

Whoa, oh, oh

I can't believe we almost hung it up

Whoa, oh, oh

We're just getting started

Whoa, oh, oh

Whoa, oh, oh, oh

It's not a dream anymore, no, oh

Whoa, oh, oh

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Yeah, we're just getting started

9.Paramore - Where The Lines Overlap Lyrics

Give me attention

I need it now

Too much distance

To measure it out

Out loud

Tracing patterns across a personal map

And making pictures where the lines overlap

Where the lines overlap

No one is as lucky as us

We're not at the end but oh we already won

Is as lucky as us

Call me over

Tell me how you got so far

Never making a single sound

I'm not used to it but I can learn

Nothing to it

I've never been happier

Is as lucky as us

Now I've got a feeling

If I sang this loud enough

You would sing it back to me

I've got a feeling

If I sang this loud enough

I've got a feeling

Is as lucky as us

10.Paramore - Misguided Ghosts Lyrics

I'm going away for a while

But I'll be back

Don't try to follow me

'Cause I'll return as soon as possible

See, I'm trying to find my place

But it might not be here where I feel safe

We all learn to make mistakes

And run from them, from them

With no direction

We'll run from them, from them

With no conviction

'Cause I'm just one of those ghosts

Travelin' endlessly

Don't need no roads

In fact, they follow me

And we just go in circles

And now I'm told that this is life

That pain is just a simple compromise

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Would someone care to classify?

A broken heart and some twisted minds

So I can find someone to rely on

And run to them, to them

Full speed ahead

Oh, you are not useless

We are just

Misguided ghosts

Travelin' endlessly

The ones we trusted the most

Pushed us far away

And there's no one road

We should not be the same

But I'm just a ghost

And still they echo me

They echo me in circles

11.Paramore - All I Wanted Lyrics

Think of me when you're out

When you're out there

I'll beg you nice from my knees

And when the world treats you way too fairly

Well it's a shame I'm a dream

All I wanted was you

I think I'll pace my apartment a few times

And fall asleep on the couch

Wake up early, to black and white re-runs

That escape from my mouth, oh

I could follow you to the beginning

Just to relive the start

Maybe then we'd remember to slow down

At all of our favorite parts

12.Paramore - Decode Lyrics

How could I decide what's right?

When you're clouding up my mind

I can't win your losing fight, all the time

How could I ever own what's mine

When you're always taking sides?

But you won't take away my pride

No not this time, not this time

How did we get here?

When I used to know you so well

But how did we get here?

Well I think I know

The truth is hiding in your eyes

And it's hanging on your tongue

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But you think that I can't see

What kind of man that you are

If you're a man at all well, I'll figure this one out

On my own (I'm screaming "I love you so")

On my own (My thoughts you can't decode)

When I used to know you so well, Yeah-Eh

Well I think I know

Do you see, what we've done?

We've gone and made such fools, of ourselves

Do you see, what we've done?

We've gone and made such fools, of ourselves

Yeah-Yeah, Hey-Hey

Yeah, Yeah-Hey, Hey-Yeah

I think I know, I think I know

There is something, I see in you