I guess it would be impressive if I could say that I knew all of the words to that really obnoxious but catchy song Blue that was all over the radio when we were in middle school, but I can't. Sorry. (Ok, fine. I might have known the song by heart at one point.)
Honestly, though, in the well-spoken words of Beckie Tran, "Come now. How many songs do I know all the words to? A thousand? Two thousand? More? I'm sure all of us know a zillion songs by heart. What a curious subject."
Last Tuesday marked the 6th year anniversary of the release of All We Know Is Falling, Paramore's debut album -- an album that meant and still means the world to me -- so I thought it would be fitting to choose a song off of AWKIF for this post. It's both a little funny and a little sad to me that some people will look back at the music they listened to in high school, and feel embarassed. Our taste in music may change as we get older, but that doesn't mean we should forget or feel guilty about the music that we loved as kids, or the music that might've helped shape our lives as teenagers. On that note, I'm not embarassed to say that I know every single lyric to every Paramore song ever released.
Here We Go Again isn't a particularly complicated song; it doesn't take many cycles to know the lyrics from beginning to end. But I know this song so well, that I also know every addition the band's made to the song during the final instrumental breakdown in the live version. For a while, during this breakdown, Hayley would sing a line from Panic! at the Disco's Camisado -- "You're a regular decorated emergency." This later changed to a verse from At The Drive-In's One Armed Scissor -- "Well I'm a million miles away. Will you get this letter? A jagged pulp runs through my veins, I write to remember" -- an outro that Hayley sang (and still sings) with so much intensity, that it became a core part of the song for me, and I crossed my fingers for the track to make it onto the set list of every show I got to attend.
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