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Paramore

Grow Up

Release date: 4th April 2013

From Paramore
Track 3
3:51
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About This Track

Paramore strip back to essentials on 'Grow Up', a track built on the simple proposition that some people need to leave things behind. The song opens with a declaration of departure: fake friends discarded, a town abandoned, nothing but a band and an unshakeable conviction to show for it. There's a defiant clarity here, the kind that comes from having made a choice and accepted its cost. The chorus repeats its central claim like a mantra, each iteration a small act of self-permission. What emerges across the verses is less a celebration of independence than a reckoning with the gap between who you are and who others expect you to be. A question about exhaustion, about whether anyone still believes in the causes they once defended. An acknowledgment that some people live in fantasy whilst others are trapped in memory, and that these two states can coexist without resolution. The song doesn't pretend to have solved anything; it just insists that moving forward sometimes means moving alone.

"Grow Up" is a track by Paramore, from the album Paramore, released 4th April 2013. The track is 3:51 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.

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Paramore

Paramore

Lyrics

Grow Up

I told 'em all where to stick it
I left town with a dime to my name
I said, I'm done with all of my fake friends
Self-righteous pawns in a losing game
Got my band and a light that won't go out
Been burning since the day I was born
So I cry just a little then I'll dry my eyes
'Cause I'm not a little girl no more
Some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind
Some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind
Stood in line for so long just to picket
Something I will never understand
Aren't you tired of always being mad at the world?
Won't you just admit you don't care?
And lady, I don't want your pity
So don't feel sad for me
I got a love I would die for and a song to sing
Maybe we're both just living out our dream
And some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind
Some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind
We get along for the most part
Me and reality, the light and the dark
We live alone, two different worlds
Me in a fantasy, you in your memories
But we get along
We get along
(For the most part)
We get along
(Yeah, for the most part)
We get along
(For the most part)
We get along
We get along
We get along
Some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind (leave you behind)
Some of us have to grow up sometimes
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind (leave you behind)
Some of us have to grow up sometimes (we grow up, never grow old)
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind
Some of us have to grow up sometimes (we grow up, never grow old)
And so, if I have to I'm gonna leave you behind

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Paramore
Paramore
5th April 2013
Track number
3
Release year
2013
  1. 1Fast In My Car
    3:43
  2. 2Now
    4:11
  3. 3Grow Up
    3:51
  4. 4Daydreaming
    4:31

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