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A guide to the different sides of Lime Garden’s ‘One More Thing’
Five tracks that map the sharp turns, intimate writing and restless pop imagination of Lime Garden’s 2024 debut.
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'Pool' is a dark love song wrapped in the album's characteristic tropical sheen. The melody, one of the first written for 'After Laughter', was started by Taylor York and completed by him alongside Zac Farro. Over bright production from Justin Meldal-Johnsen and York, Hayley Williams sings about compulsion and drowning, the kind of devotion that pulls you under even when you know better. "I'm underwater / No air in my lungs / My eyes are open / And I'm giving up," she repeats, the chorus a surrender disguised as acceptance. The song sits at the heart of 'After Laughter''s central tension: music that sounds like escape, lyrics that admit there is none. Williams describes diving back into a relationship despite knowing the damage, unable to resist the pull. The repetition in the final verses, "Dive right back into you", becomes almost hypnotic, a loop of desire and helplessness. A Dork five-star record, 'After Laughter' is ok with not being ok, and 'Pool' is where that contradiction cuts deepest.
"Pool" is a track by Paramore, from the album After Laughter, released 11th May 2017. The track is 3:53 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.
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