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'Decode' appeared on the soundtrack to the film Twilight and later as a bonus track on the international version of Paramore's third studio album, brand new eyes. Hayley Williams described the song as addressing the building tension, awkwardness, anger and confusion between the film's central characters, Bella and Edward. The lyrics adopt Bella's perspective as she struggles to understand her vampire boyfriend, the relationship caught between devotion and opacity. The track channels romantic frustration through a rising dynamic, Williams voicing the push-pull of someone who cannot win a losing fight. Paramore frame the emotional standoff in direct terms: pride held against manipulation, truth hiding in eyes and hanging on tongues. The chorus circles a single question, the repetition itself a kind of bewilderment. It is a song about decoding what cannot be decoded, the gap between what is screamed and what is understood.
"Decode" is a single by Paramore, released 11th April 2008. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.
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