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Hayley Williams – Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris
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“Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris” is a song about feminism that uses a garden and its flowers as a metaphor for growing and finding one’s self. This is the first song released after the EP
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Hayley Williams – Simmer
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“Simmer” marks Hayley Williams‘ debut as a solo artist. The track, with a groovy and dark instrumental, deals with bottling anger and controlling it. It follows Hayley as she goes
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Hayley Williams – Crystal Clear
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The closer to Petals for Armor, “Crystal Clear,” is a soft track detailing Hayley’s willingness to move on with her life and how she will no longer live in fear or slow down with
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Hayley Williams – Cinnamon
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“Cinnamon” is, according to Hayley, an ode to her home. Throughout this minimalistic track, she sings about the walls around her, her dog Alf, and her everyday routines.
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Hayley Williams – Sudden Desire
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“Sudden Desire”, the closing track to Hayley’s first EP, sees her with the urge to connect with someone in a romantic fashion.
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Hayley Williams – Asystole
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Usually referred to as “cardiac flatline,” an “asystole is the state of total cessation of electrical activity from the heart, which means no tissue contraction from the heart
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Hayley Williams – Dead Horse
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In “Dead Horse”, Hayley sings about betrayal and everything that led to her divorce, including the affair she saw herself in. She talks about the shame she has been carrying for
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Hayley Williams – Why We Ever
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“Why We Ever” is a ballad about disconnecting from something in your past. Hayley sings about forgetting about the person who hurt her so badly. She also mentions her emotional
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Hayley Williams – Leave It Alone
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The second single from Petals for Armor is a song about grief. “Leave It Alone” sees Hayley singing about struggling with losing people and how she’s managed to escape her
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Hayley Williams – Descansos
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Descansos are memorials set beside a place on the road where a person’s life ended suddenly, or, at the very least, where their life was changed forever.
On the book “Women Who
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Hayley Williams – Teenagers
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“Teenagers” is a song written & performed by Hayley Williams. This song is not a part of any Paramore album, as it went to the horror film Jennifer’s Body as a soundtrack in 2009.
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Hayley Williams – Teardrop
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[Verse 1] / Love, love is a verb / Love is a doing word / Fearless on my breath / Gentle impulsion / Shakes me, makes me lighter / Fearless on my breath / [Chorus] / Teardrop on
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Hayley Williams – My Friend
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The third single off Petals for Armor II, “My Friend”, sees Hayley talking about a close friend of hers, Brian O'Connor, and how this person has seen her through the ups and downs
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Hayley Williams – Over Yet
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“Over Yet” brings a close punk sound with motivational lyrics encouraging depressed people not to give up on their lives. All of this is fueled up by Hayley’s experience with
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Hayley Williams – Creepin’
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In “Creepin'” Hayley sings about a kind of “vampire” that sucks her energy and how she handles people that suck the joy out of your life. The song can be interpreted as a metaphor
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Hayley Williams – Pure Love
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In “Pure Love” Hayley looks into her vulnerable side and lets herself know that if she wants to be loved she must open up while at the time finding someone who treats her well. The
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Hayley Williams – KYRH
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“KYRH” stands for “Keep You Right Here”. The 8th out of 14 songs on FLOWERS for VASES / decscansos, KYRH serves as somewhat of an intermission between the first half of the album
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Hayley Williams – Inordinary
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Hayley remembers her whole life, when she and her mother left Mississippi to live in Franklin and started a new life there, met her friends (who would form Paramore) and her now ex
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Hayley Williams – Trigger
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[Verse 1] / All I ever had to say about love is a sad song / I get off on telling everybody what went wrong / It makes me feel like the pain had a purpose / Keeps me believing that
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Hayley Williams – Sugar on the Rim
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“Sugar on the Rim,” one of the most experimental tracks on Petals for Armor, sees Hayley finding a silver lining on all the problems she’s faced previously to the release of this
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Hayley Williams – Wait On
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[Verse 1] / I don't wanna wait on you / But it's just what I keep doing / As if I got nothing to do / As if my life won't keep on going without you / [Chorus] / The sky will wake
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Hayley Williams – Just a Lover
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[Intro] / Love is not a friend, it's not a brother / Love is not a Wendy-Moira-mother / Love has turned me into many others, now I guess I'm just / [Break] / Just a lover / [Verse
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Hayley Williams – My Limb
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My Limb is part of Hayley Williams‘ sophomore album, FLOWERS for VASES / descansos.
On January 28, 2021, Williams personally delivered a sanctuary candle, a handwritten note, and
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Hayley Williams – HYD
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[Intro] / When the air is quiet and the sky is blue / I can't help be reminded of yo— / Are you fucking kidding me? / [Verse 1] / When the air is quiet and the sky is blue / I can'
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Hayley Williams – Find Me Here (FLOWERS for VASES / descansos Version)
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Originally on the Petals for Armor: Self-Serenades – EP but shorter, ‘Find Me Here’ is “the feeling of surrendering your loved ones to their own, personal struggles; Letting them
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Hayley Williams – First Thing to Go
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The first track of FLOWERS for VASES /descansos seems to pick up the story Hayley told in her previous album Petals for Armor from its tenth track “Why We Ever”, where she sang
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Hayley Williams – Watch Me While I Bloom
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“Watch Me While I Bloom” is an uplifting track that dials back to the flower metaphors that inspired this album. Here, Hayley feels new again and willing to move forward with her
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Hayley Williams – Good Grief
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[Verse 1] / There's no such thing as good grief / Haven't eaten in three weeks / Skin and bones when you're not near me / I'm all skeleton and melody / [Verse 2] / There's no such
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Hayley Williams – Over Those Hills
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[Verse 1] / Over those hills, I bet you're somewhere dreaming / I take my pills every night and in the morning / When you wake up, ever wish I was beside you? / We could look out
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Read All The Lyrics To Hayley Williams’ Debut Solo Album ‘Petals For Armor’
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“There was no pressure to sound like I’ve always sounded or to be recognized.”
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Hayley Williams – Colour Me In
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[Verse 1] / I am grey, still on the page / Oh, colour me in / Just an outline, sketchy but fine / Oh, colour me in / If green is chasing the hills over miles / If blue is pursuing
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Hayley Williams – Nineteen
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Hayley Williams covered Tegan & Sara’s “Nineteen” for the ten-year celebration of The Con. She tweeted about the impact The Con had on her at a young age.
https://twitter.com/
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Hayley Williams – Taken
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In “Taken,” Hayley sends a message to everyone who’s looking to date her saying she’s unavailable as she’s dating someone else.
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Hayley Williams – No Use I Just Do
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[Verse 1] / Nobody wants to be alone / But that is not why I want you / See, I've tried and I keep trying, but baby / [Chorus] / It's no use, it's no use, I just love you / It's no
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Hayley Williams – Find Me Here
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“Find Me Here”, a short and sweet acoustic track, is the only brand new song in the Petals For Armor: Self-Serenades EP. The other two tracks are acoustic versions of “Simmer” and
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Hayley Williams) – Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]
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Swift wrote “Castles Crumbling” around 2010 for her third studio album, Speak Now. Since then, fans gained knowledge of the song, but no part of it was actually ever heard until it
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Apistat Commander – Hayley Williams Ate My Family
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The whole day moved like a bad dream / And I was bursting at the seams / We were stuck out alone in some mass crowd / I guess you let go of my hand / It's hard feeling stuck / And
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Hayley Williams – Don’t Start Now (Live in the Live Lounge)
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[Intro] / If you don't wanna see me / [Verse 1] / Did a full 180, crazy / Thinking 'bout the way I was / Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe / But look at where I ended up / I'm
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Hayley Williams – Simmer (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1] / Rage is a quiet thing / You think that you've tamed it / It's just lying in wait, mmm / Rage, is it in our veins? / Feel it in my face when / When I least expect it
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Hayley Williams (Ft. Caroline Polachek) – Simmer (Caroline Polachek Remix)
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The first official remix of “Simmer” was described by Hayley as a sexier and angrier version of the original. It was produced and features the American singer Caroline Polachek.
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Hayley Williams – Dead Horse (Glass Animals Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Every morning I wake up / From a dream of you, holding me / Underwater (Is that a dream or a memory?) / Held my breath for a decade / Dyed my hair blue to match my lips
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B.o.B (Ft. Hayley Williams) – Airplanes
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“Airplanes” sees B.o.B. reminiscing about the simple, everyday life he led prior to catching the glitz and glamour of being a new-famed rapper on this catchy single from his debut
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CHVRCHES (Ft. Hayley Williams) – Bury It (Duet Version)
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This version of CHVRCHES' song “Bury It” features Hayley Williams, the lead singer of Paramore and friend of the band.
The band teased the track prior to its live premiere on
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