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From Taking Back Sunday’s formative jolt to the songwriting freedom of Biffy Clyro and Coheed & Cambria, these are the artists As It Is have named as essential listening.
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A feel-good rush of a track, 'Looking Up' catches Paramore at a moment of hard-won relief. The song moves fast and bright, built around the simple affirmation that things are finally improving, that a dream deferred is now within reach. There's a defiant gratitude in the lyrics, a recognition that the band almost didn't make it to this point, that they came close enough to quitting that the alternative feels vivid and real. The song works as a statement of intent and survival both. Paramore sing about crossing the world whilst it sleeps, about the near-miss that almost ended them, about the waste it would have been to give up when they were just getting started. It's a track that earns its optimism not through saccharine sentiment but through the weight of what nearly wasn't.
"Looking Up" is a track by Paramore, from the album Brand New Eyes, released 21st September 2009. The track is 3:29 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.
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