Think of me when you're out, when you're out there

This is a completely informal blog post but...

I just want to revisit my previous posts about Paramore's brand new eyes for a quick second. After listening to the album a lot more, I have really come to love the track All I Wanted a lot more. It has officially become my fourth favorite song, following Misguided Ghosts. There, you are informed.

Currently Listening To: "The Silence" by Mayday Parade from "Anywhere But Here"

But if it's true, you can see it with your eyes, oh even in the dark. And that's where I want to be, yeah...

In keeping with my last, ridiculously long post about brand new eyes, Paramore's latest record, I have decided to elaborate a little more on my opinions (seems impossible, eh?) I'll start with the order of my favorite to least favorite songs on the album and then include some of the lyrics that I find really make the album the gem that it is. Here we go again (no pun intended)...

1. Careful
2. Brick By Boring Brick
3. Misguided Ghosts
4. Where The Lines Overlap
5. Looking Up
6. Playing God
7. Turn It Off
8. All I Wanted
9. Feeling Sorry
10. The Only Exception
11. Ignorance

Some of my favorite quotes (note that the style is done the way it appears in the booklet):

Careful:
you'd make your way in i'd resist you just like this
"YOU CAN'T TELL ME TO FEEL!"
the truth never set me
free
so i did it myself

open your eyes like i opened mine
it's only the real world: a life you will never know

you look like I did you resist you just like this
"YOU CAN'T TELL ME TO HEAL!"
and it hurts remembering
how it felt to
shut
down


Ignorance:
it's not a war no it's NOT A RAPTURE


Playing God:
it's just my
humble opinion but it's one that i believe in
you don't deserve a point of view if the only
thing you see is you you don't have to believe
me but the way the way i see it next time you
point a finger i might have to bend it back or
break it break it off NEXT TIME YOU POINT
A FINGER I'LL POINT YOU TO THE
MIRROR this is the last second chance 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.


Brick By Boring Brick:
She lives in a fairy tale
somewhere too far for us to find
forgotten the taste and smell of a world that She's left behind
it's all about the exposure
the lens
i told Her the angles were all wrong now She's ripping
wings off of butterflies
keep your feet
on the ground
when your head's in the clouds
GO GET YOUR SHOVEL
and we'll dig a deep hole
TO BURY THE CASTLE

well make sure to build your home brick
by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it
down

you built up a world of magic
because your real life is tragic
if it's not real you can't hold it in your hands
you can't feel it with your heart
and i won't believe it
but if it's true you can see it with your eyes
even in the dark
and that's where i want to be


Turn It Off:
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 my pride
to see nothing in the light or turn it off in all my spite
IN ALL MY SPITE I'LL TURN IT OFF

and in the free fall i will realize that i'm better off when i hit the bottom

it's all wrong the way we're working towards a goal that's nonexistent
it's nonexistent but we just keep believing


The Only Exception:
and we've got to find other ways to make it alone
keep a straight face
i've always lived like this
keeping a comfortable
distance
and up until now i had
sworn to myself that i'm
content with loneliness
because none of it was ever
worth the risk

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 it's not a dream

you are the only exception

i'm on my way to believing


Feeling Sorry:
and i'm getting bored waiting around for you
we're not getting any younger and i won't look back
cause there's no use it's time to move forward

i try not to think of what might happen
when your reality finally cuts through
well as for me i got out and i'm
on the road and the worst part is that
this could be you

all the best lies
they are told with fingers tied
so cross them tight won't you promise me tonight
if it's the last thing you do you'll get out


Looking Up:
things are looking up
oh FINALLY
i thought i'd never see the day when you'd smile at me

honestly
can you believe we cross the world while it's asleep?
i'll 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've given up so easily
i was a few cheap shots away from the end of me
taking for granted most everything that i would've died for just yesterday

God knows the world doesn't need another band
but what a waste it would've been
I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ALMOST HUNG IT UP
WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!


Where The Lines Overlap:
no one is as lucky as us
we're not at the end but oh we already won
no one is as lucky as us

i've never been happier

now i've got a feeling if i sang this loud enough
YOU
would sing it back to me
i've got a feeling I GOT A FEELING!!!
YOU
would sing it back to me


Misguided Ghosts:

i am going away for a while but i'll be back don't try and follow me 'cause i'll return as soon as possible see i'm trying to find my place and it might not be here where i feel safe we all learn to make mistakes and run from them with no direction we'll run from them with no conviction 'cause i'm just one of those ghosts traveling 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 and pain is just a simple compromise so we can get what we want out of it would someone care to classify our broken hearts and twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on and run to them full speed ahead oh you are not useless we are just misguided ghosts traveling 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


All I Wanted:
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 it's a shame i'm a dream

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

ALL I WANTED WAS YOU

The truth never set me free, so I did it myself

My latest and greatest musical obsession

brand new eyes by Paramore - This album will go down as one of the best that I have ever listened to. So much of what makes up this album, lyrically and musically, is so profound it astounds me. Now, there is no doubt this is very much tied in with my personal experiences, but nevertheless, it is also universally relateable (oxymoronic much?). Paramore comes back from what was almost their demise and delivers an album that blows Riot! out of the water. As you know (if you've read previous posts) I think very highly of Riot! and it continues to be one of my favorite albums. But brand new eyes takes Paramore to the next level, with lyrics that are so raw and honest it seems as though the band needed everyone to feel what they were feeling at the time when Paramore almost saw the end of their band. Hayley Williams' lyrics strike a very personal chord and show the listener from her point of view what the last tomultuous year and a half was like for her and the band. Opening with Careful, which is my favorite track of the album, the band delivers the kind of guitars that we've come to expect from Paramore, perhaps with a little more grit and rock feel. Top that with much more raw vocals from Williams, and the opener takes old Paramore and roughs it up a little bit. The lyrics take the band to a slightly darker side than For A Pessimist, Riot!'s opener, and introduces those darker themes that will continue throughout the album. Next is Ignorance, the first single off of the album, which returns to a similar sound as Misery Business, a more classic Paramore sound. Although some might like this, it does have the tendency to bore a little bit. Playing God is another depiction of Williams' feelings toward her bandmates, with a sound more original than the previous track. Next is Brick By Boring Brick, one of my own favorites from the album, with a chorus that deviates into a softer, rawer feeling than the guitars that open the track. The melody is very beautiful and gives the song a wonderful charm and emotional quality. I can't even explain why this song moves me so much, but it certainly does. Turn It Off comes next, which is another great track that shows the progression and maturity of the band's sound and lyrics, another look at the realizations of the past year. The Only Exception is the first time we here an acoustic ballad from Paramore, who sing about love and lost love. This one definitely strikes a personal chord considering my own experience with my parents' divorce, and the lyrics are pretty much exclusive to the point. It does have a little too much, well, almost floatiness to it (great job with that description, huh?) which might make me skip over it when listening to the album. Feeling Sorry has a great musical opening, and the first few lines of lyrics are really good, but for some reason, it kind of drops off a little for me. I really like the song, but I almost feel like there is something about it that makes me not want to listen to it as much. Looking Up is a great, feel-good track that reminds me why I love Paramore. They have a wonderful way of getting the listener to feel really good and happy, and the chorus of the song gets stuck in my head quite easily. Following that same train of thought comes Where The Lines Overlap, which ensures the listener that despite some of the struggles the band has gone through, they are certainly not done. The upbeat aspect of the chorus and the lyrics, paired with the musical sound in general makes the track vibrant and encouraging. Another favorite of mine. Misguided Ghosts is simply beautiful in so many ways. The acoustic aspect of the music works much better here than with The Only Exception, with Williams' voice displayed beautifully. I can't describe how perfect the vocals sound, and the lyrics compliment it perfectly, along with the guitars. A simply astounding track. All I Wanted closes the album with a reminder of how versatile Paramore can be. The sound is different from what you've come to expect from the band, even with an album that boasts a sound different from that of their previous work. This track starts slow and ends heavier, also displaying the more raw tendancies of Williams' vocals. Overall, brand new eyes finds Paramore reaching above and beyond what they did so well in Riot! and All We Know Is Falling. An exceptional album that deserves way more than the credit I have tried to give it here.

Key Tracks: Careful, Brick By Boring Brick, Misguided Ghosts, Where The Lines Overlap, Looking Up

Currently Listening To: "Misguided Ghosts" by Paramore from "brand new eyes"