Paramore - "Brand New Eyes" Lyrics and Trivia Quiz

Answer: dark

The studio version of "Brick By Boring Brick" was first premiered on a Paris radio show and the Official Paramore Fan Club.

Hayley Williams explained that the song was about "...not accepting reality and understanding that you don't have to make everything frilly or pretty-sounding for it to be interesting" (Rock Sound, 2009).

Answer: "You got so far / Never making a single sound"

This is what Hayley Williams said about "Where The Lines Overlap": "...it isn't only about long distance relationships. It's also just about our band getting through a lot. Feeling like things can be simple again. We needed a song like this!" (paramoreband LiveJournal, 2009).

Answer: black

Hayley Williams found a dead butterfly in her mother's driveway. The butterfly was then used in the cover of "Brand New Eyes" as it depicts a lyric in the song "Brick By Boring Brick": "She's ripping wings off of butterflies".

Answer: Careful

An instrumental version of "Careful" is playing on the DVD menu that comes with the "Brand New Eyes" deluxe box set.

Answer: bottom

Josh Farro had this to say about "Turn It Off": "Every now and again I'll write something that just really hits me hard and reminds me of why I do this, and this is one of those times" (Kerrang, 2009).

Answer: Ignorance

"Ignorance" is the eighth single to be released in the US and ninth in the UK (the eighth single being "Hallelujah", which was not released anywhere else).

"Decode" was a single released from the "Twilight" soundtrack.

Answer: True

In the weeks before its release, "Brand New Eyes" received rave reviews, for example, Alternative Press gave the album 4.5/5, Big Cheese gave it 5/5 and Rock Sound gave it 9/10.

Answer: Feeling Sorry

The songs "Ignorance" and "Where The Lines Overlap" were the first songs from "Brand New Eyes" to be played live.

Answer: Ignorance and Where The Lines Overlap

Only 15,000 copies of the deluxe box set of "Brand New Eyes" were made. The deluxe album sold out in just over two months in the US Paramore store.

Answer: dream

These lyrics are from the song "The Only Exception".

Hayley Williams said this about "Brand New Eyes": "There's fast, there's slow, and in between...happy, angry, desperate and over it. And I can't believe it's real" (Rolling Stone, 2009).

Answer: No

The correct lyrics are "And wake up early to black and white re-runs".

In the handwritten lyrics journal, which was included in the deluxe box set of "Brand New Eyes", Hayley tells us that "All I Wanted" is about Chad Gilbert.

Answer: Taylor York

"Conspiracy" was the first song Taylor York wrote with the band that made it on to their debut album, "All We Know Is Falling". Josh Farro had Taylor York tell the lead singer of the band they were in to leave. This was to make way for Hayley Williams.

Answer: minds

Josh Farro describes this song as being "...based around the idea that everyone is like a misguided ghost, just trying to find their way through the world" and said "This is definitely one of my favourites" (Kerrang, 2009).

Answer: band

These lyrics are from the song "Looking Up".

When asked about his thoughts on the Paramore T-shirt signing that took place in HMV Oxford Circus, London in September 2009, Jeremy Davis commented, "I thought it was awesome to see all the T-shirts printed with 'Franklin, Tennessee'. It was like a taste of home for us" (Kerrang, 2009).

Answer: Decode

Paramore covered the song "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon on Radio 1's Live Lounge in September 2009 along with an acoustic version of "Ignorance".