Track 9 on Paramore’s debut album All We Know Is Falling, “Franklin” is a song about how it is like to come back to their hometown Franklin, Tennessee after they began touring as a band and started to gain fame.
[Verse 1: Hayley Williams]
And when we get home
I know we won't be home at all
This place we live
It is not where we belong
And I miss who we were
In the town that we could call our own
Going back to get away
After everything has changed
[Chorus: Josh Farro, Hayley Williams]
Could you remind me of a time
When we were so alive? (Everything has changed)
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that? (Everything has changed)
Could you help me push aside
All that I have left behind? (Everything is changed)
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
[Verse 2: Hayley Williams]
So we stand here now
And no one knows us at all
I won't get used to this
I won't get used to being gone
And going back won't feel the same
If we aren't staying
Going back to get away
After everything has changed
[Chorus: Josh Farro, Hayley Williams]
Could you remind me of a time
When we were so alive? (Everything has changed)
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that? (Everything has changed)
Could you help me push aside
All that I have left behind? (Everything is changed)
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
[Break: Hayley Williams]
(Taking up our time)
(Taking up our time)
(Taking up our time)
[Bridge: Hayley Williams]
It's taking up our time, we can't
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time, we can't
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time, we can't
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time
Taking up our time
[Outro: Josh Farro, Hayley Williams & Josh Farro]
'Cause you remind me of a time
When we were so alive
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Franklin was written by Hayley Williams & Josh Farro.
Franklin was produced by Mike Green.
Hayley said in an interview
The track is about the town that I live in in Tennessee and how the people in that town sort of didn’t even know where the band was. We were recording in Orland and not many people, including some friends, didn’t even know where we were