Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour 
About This Track
Hayley Williams confronts someone wielding moral authority like a weapon. 'Playing God' finds her resisting control, pushing back against a person who mistakes superiority for righteousness and criticism for guidance. The song builds on a simple, devastating refrain: next time you point a finger, I'll point you to the mirror. It's a demand for self-examination dressed as a threat. Williams, Josh Farro, and Taylor York wrote the track with producer Rob Cavallo, constructing something that moves from restraint to defiance. The verses are precise about the mechanism of control, the cramming of ideas, the casual dismissal of change as mere aging, before the chorus erupts into something harder. By the final repetitions, the mirror becomes less an insult and more a condition of continued engagement. Believe me or don't, the song says, but look at yourself first.
"Playing God" is a single by Paramore, from the album Brand New Eyes, released 21st September 2009. The track is 3:03 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.
About the Artist
Lyrics
Lyrics provided by LRCLIB
View full lyrics page →Track details
More from Paramore
Explore
Showing 10 of 20
Credits
READ MORE ABOUT PARAMOREREAD MORE ABOUT PARAMOREREAD MORE ABOUT PARAMOREREAD MORE ABOUT PARAMOREREAD MORE ABOUT PARAMOREREAD MORE ABOUT PARAMORE
Zac Farro’s work with KennyHoopla and Hayley Williams shows how his creative role stretches from percussion and production into film direction.
Paramore’s ‘Re: This Is Why’ was built on an unusually direct brief: let collaborators take the songs somewhere genuinely their own.
From Coachella to Paris and Nashville, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS and Hayley Williams have built an onstage connection through different corners of Paramore’s catalogue.
Alex Lahey’s second album widened its pop-punk frame through changed structures, tunings and instrumental colour, while keeping everyday uncertainty at its centre.
Hayley Williams has honoured New Found Glory co-founder Chad Gilbert, reflecting on his influence on her life and her connection to hardcore.
Paramore’s 2005 debut was not an immediate chart breakthrough. Touring, later success and listeners travelling back through the catalogue gave it a longer life.
