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Release date: 21st September 2009

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Hayley Williams confronts the collapse of her certainties on 'Turn It Off', a raw examination of personal and spiritual crisis. The song opens with the image of prayer gone wrong, faith itself becoming a site of betrayal, and spirals outward to indict the systems and shortcuts that surround her. Williams grapples with the gap between what she once believed sacred and the reality beneath it. The track builds its power through repetition and descent. A chaotic free fall becomes, paradoxically, a kind of clarity; she sings that hitting bottom might be the only honest place left. The song refuses easy resolution, instead embracing the necessity of collapse as a route to something truer. It sits at the midpoint of 'Brand New Eyes', a moment of maximum turbulence before anything can settle.

"Turn It Off" is a track by Paramore, from the album Brand New Eyes, released 21st September 2009. The track is 4:20 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.

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Lyrics

Turn It Off

I scraped my knees while I was praying
And found a demon in my safest haven
Seems like it's getting harder to believe in anything
Than just to get lost in all my selfish thoughts
I wanna know what it'd be like
To find perfection in my pride
To see nothing in the light
But turn it off in all my spite
In all my spite, I'll turn it off

And the worst part is, before it gets any better
We're headed for a cliff
And in the free fall I will realize
I'm better off when I hit the bottom

The tragedy, it seems unending
I'm watching everyone I looked up to breaking, bending
Or taking shortcuts and false solutions
Just to come out the hero
Well, I can see behind the curtain (I can see now)
The wheels are cranking, turning
It's all wrong the way we're working
Towards a goal that's nonexistent
It's nonexistent but we just keep believing

And the worst part is, before it gets any better
We're headed for a cliff
And in the free fall I will realize
I'm better off when I hit the bottom

I wanna know what it'd be like
To find perfection in my pride
To see nothing in the light
And turn it off in all my spite
In all my spite, I'll turn it off
Just turn it off
Again
Again, again

And the worst part is, before it gets any better
We're headed for a cliff
And in the free fall I will realize
I'm better off when I hit the bottom
And the worst part is, before it gets any better
We're headed for a cliff
And in the free fall I will realize
I'm better off when I hit the bottom

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From Brand New Eyes

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22nd September 2009
Track number
5
Release year
2009
  1. 1Careful
    3:50
  2. 2Ignorance
    3:39
  3. 3Playing God
    3:03
  4. 4Brick By Boring Brick
    4:14
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    Writer
    Hayley Williams, Josh Farro
    Producer
    Rob Cavallo
    Co-Producer
    Paramore
    Engineer
    Dan Chase, Doug McKean, Lars Fox
    Bass
    Jeremy Davis
    Drums
    Zac Farro
    Guitar
    Josh Farro, Taylor York
    Keyboards
    Jamie Muhoberac
    Vocals
    Hayley Williams
    Additional Mixing
    Brad Townsend
    Assistant Engineer
    Russ Waugh, Steve Rea
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Keith Armstrong, Nik Karpen
    Background Vocals
    Josh Farro
    Drum Technician
    Nate Warshowsky
    Guitar Technician
    Riley Emminger
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Chris Lord-Alge
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