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Paramore

Decoy

Release date: 12th June 2007

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About This Track

'Decoy' by Paramore is a 2007 track from the album 'Hallelujah'. The lyrics sketch a retreat into make-believe, urging someone to forget love and its memories as time blurs the details, with the singer sounding both reassuring and detached. There is a recurring idea of intimacy slipping away, rendered in images of distance and stars reminiscing, and the verse ends mid-thought, with the sense that the emotional explanation is still building.

"Decoy" is a track by Paramore, from the album Hallelujah, released 12th June 2007. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.

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Paramore

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Lyrics

Decoy

[Verse 1]

Close your eyes and make believe

This is where you wanna be

Forgetting all the memories

Try to forget love 'cause love's forgotten me

Well, hey, hey, baby, it's never too late

Pretty soon, you won't remember a thing

And I'll be distant, the stars reminiscing

Your heart's been wasted on me

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Chorus]

You've never been so used as I'm using you

Abusing you, my little decoy

Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through

I'm using you, my little decoy

My little decoy

[Verse 2]

Live your life inside a dream

'Cause time is changing everything

Forgetting all the memories

And I'm forced into you just 'cause you're into me

Well, hey, hey, baby, it's never too late

When I'm gone, you won't remember a thing

But I can't stay and, no, I won't wait

I was gone from the very first day

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Chorus]

You've never been so used as I'm using you

Abusing you, my little decoy

Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through

I'm using you, my little decoy

[Bridge]

Oh, oh

I'm not sorry at all (Not sorry at all, not sorry)

No, no

I won't be sorry at all (Not sorry at all, not sorry)

No, no

I'd do it over again

[Outro]

Don't look so blue, my little decoy

You should've seen right through, my little decoy

You've never been so used, my little decoy

As I'm using you, my little decoy

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2007
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