"Turn It Off " is the fifth track off Paramore's third album brand new eyes.
Background[]
"Everyone knows what we believe in and our personal choice to believe in Jesus. It’s a struggle in the real world to do that. Sometimes you want to give up. Some of the things we’ve been through – things I’ve been through personally – in the last few years, I’ve felt it would be easier to not have faith in anything and see myself as alone and work at it that way. It sounds like a good idea and I don’t think it’s anything anyone gets over. I also think it’s a hopeful lyric, too. If you find yourself at the bottom, the only way you have is to look up. It can’t get any worse if you’re at the bottom. I wrote all the verses with no melody on the tour with did last spring with Jimmy Eat World. We were going through so much as a band–a lot of negative vibes. I felt hopeless and even faithless a lot of the time. Funny it had to be on a tour with some of our heroes. Nearly a year later, we’re at our practice space and the guys are jamming this song. I just started singing these lyrics, reading them right out of my phone and making up the melodies as we all went along. It worked! I memorized the chorus progression and went home to write the chorus with my guitar in hand. Does anyone beside me think the last line in the chorus sounds like, ‘When I hit the bottle?’ Well, it’s not. Okay?” - Hayley Williams
Audio[]
Paramore - Turn It Off (Official Audio)
Lyrics[]
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 that
I'm better off when I hit the bottom
The tragedy, it seems unending
I'm watching everyone I looked up to breaking, bending
We're taking shortcuts and false solutions
Just to come out the hero
Well I can see behind the curtain
The wheels are cranking turning
It's all wrong the way we're working
Towards a goal, that's non-existent, it's non-existent
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
But 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
Then in the free fall I will realize
I'm better off when I hit the bottom
Streaming[]
Brand New Eyes
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"Brick By Boring Brick" | "Turn It Off" | "The Only Exception" | 
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Brand New Eyes |
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| Songs | Careful • Ignorance • Playing God • Brick By Boring Brick • Turn It Off • The Only Exception • Feeling Sorry • Looking Up • Where the Lines Overlap • Misguided Ghosts • All I Wanted |
| Bonus Tracks | Decode • Ignorance (Acoustic Version) • Where the Lines Overlap (Acoustic Version) • Brick By Boring Brick (Acoustic Version) • Turn It Off (Acoustic) |
| Members | Hayley Williams • Josh Farro • Taylor York • Jeremy Davis • Zac Farro |
