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Paramore

Escape Route

Release date: 9th April 2013

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About This Track

'Escape Route' by Paramore is an alternative track from the album 'Paramore (Deluxe Edition)' released in 2013. The lyrics find the speaker searching for a life somewhere else, imagining a future lined with new faces, and fixing their plans in motion with a map and an escape route. A line like “plan an escape route” captures the song’s forward-leaning urgency, even as it admits the present is hard to outrun. The mood is restless and self-directed, as if plotting a way out is the only available kind of control.

"Escape Route" is a track by Paramore, from the album Paramore (Deluxe Edition), released 9th April 2013. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.

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Paramore

Paramore

Lyrics

Escape Route

[Verse 1]

I got a life out there somewhere, it's waiting

Lined with palm trees and only new faces

If I could look past the present and get there

Well, baby, it's worth a shot

Just enough time to plan an escape route

I put my map on the wall in the basement

Not quite a victory to run from your problems

But it's the only plan that I got

It's the only plan that I got

[Chorus]

And if you try to find me now (Oh, oh, oh)

I'm in all the echoes that faded out, so

I'm moving on 'cause I just want to feel for once that I belong

And that's what's going on, that's what's going on

[Verse 2]

Crossed the state line and called out a warning

Not too long now, I'll breathe California

Paid my dues and I tried to be loyal

But now I'm done with all that

Where I'm going is everyone's story

We want new lives, we'd love to start over

It's not a question of who are we really

It's who we wanna be

[Chorus]

And if you try to find me now (Oh, oh, oh)

I'm in all the echoes that faded out, so

I'm moving on 'cause I just want to feel for once that I belong

And that's what's going on

[Bridge]

All that's in between

A brand new life and I is time

But time has not been kind, it's not been kind to me

It's winding backwards

Time has not been kind, it's crawling by

So slowly

[Chorus]

And if you try to find me now (Oh, oh, oh)

I'm in all the echoes that faded out, so

I'm moving on 'cause I just want to feel for once that I belong

And that's what's going on

And if you try to find me now (Oh, oh, oh)

I'm in all the echoes that faded out, so

I'm moving on 'cause I just want to feel for once that I belong

And that's what's going on

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From Paramore (Deluxe Edition)

2013
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Producer
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Guitar
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Vocals
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Background Vocals
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Bass Guitar
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Mastering Engineer
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