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Hayley talked about the meaning behind the song and how it came to be in an interview with Music Mix:
It came together after six months of listening to Blondie’s Greatest Hits on repeat. This was during another case of writers’ block, more of a milder case this time. Right before I went to L.A., I...
[Verse 1]
Living in a city of sleepless people
Who all know the limits and won't go too far
Outside the lines
‘Cause they're out of their minds
I wanna get out and build my own home
On a street where reality is not much different
From dreams I've had
A dream is all I have
[Chorus]
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time
Daydreaming
Daydreaming into the night
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time
Daydreaming
Daydreaming into the night
And I'm alright
[Verse 2]
Creep past the hours
Like the shorter hand on the clock
Hanging on a wall of a schoolhouse somewhere
We wait for the bell
And we dream of somewhere else
[Chorus]
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time
Daydreaming
Daydreaming into the night
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time
Daydreaming
Daydreaming into the night
And I'm alright
[Bridge]
It's not that I won't remember where I'm from
Just don't want to be here no more
It's not enough, ha-ah-ah-ah-oh
(We're only half alive)
I'm gonna go, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
(We're only half alive)
Where the rest of the dreamers go, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
(We're only half alive)
Where the dreamers go, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-ooh
[Chorus]
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time (A dream is all I have)
Daydreaming
Daydreaming into the night
And I'm alright
Daydreaming
Daydreaming all the time (A dream is all I have)
Daydreamer
We used to be half alive
Now I'm alright
I'm alright
I'm alright
Daydreaming was written by Taylor York & Hayley Williams.
Daydreaming was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Paramore released Daydreaming on Tue Apr 09 2013.
In a 2013 interview with the New York Times, Williams describes the song as “a total rip of ‘Dreaming’ by Blondie” and says that she titled the song “Daydreaming” because “I couldn’t think of a better title.”