Lyrics for Decoy as interpreted by thoseguiltyeyes

Decoy Lyrics
Close your eyes and make believe
This is where you wanna be
Forgetting all the memories
Try to forget love
'Cause love's forgotten me

Well, hey, hey, baby
It's never too late
Pretty soon you won't remember a thing
And I'll be as distant as stars
Reminiscing, your heart's been wasted on me

You've never been so used
As I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue
You should have seen right through
I'm using you
My little decoy
My little decoy

Living life inside a dream
Time is changing everything
Forgetting all the memories
And I'm forced into you
Just 'cause you're into me

Well, hey, hey, baby
It's never too late
When I'm gone
You won't remember a thing
But I can't stay
And no, I won't wait
I was gone from the very first day

You've never been so used
As I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue
You should have seen right through
I'm using you
My little decoy

I'm not sorry at all
(Not sorry at all, not sorry)
No, I won't be sorry at all
(Not sorry at all, not sorry, no)
I'd do it over again

(Don't look so blue)
My little decoy
(You should have seen right through)
My little decoy
(You've never been so used)
My little decoy
(As I'm using you)
My little decoy

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Rocketchildren
06-12-2007

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it's not long ^^

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dshbrdfn8
06-12-2007

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there are more lyrics

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AmP
06-13-2007

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hm..personally, i relate this song to drugs..

but i highly doubt she was writing about drugs..

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scene
06-13-2007

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I think its about a girl who is with someone she really doesnt care for and she cant have the person she really loves so shes using this other guy as a "Decoy" to fill the void while time passes but he doesnt mean anything to her hes just there

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whenxitxrains
06-19-2007

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I agree with scene..
But it sem strange, like the lyrics are oosite to everyting ese the usually write knda..

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travissaucier420
06-20-2007

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where is this song located on Riot! ?

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thoseguiltyeyes
06-20-2007

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It's a bonus track on the version sold at Hot Topic.

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WishingForYou
06-21-2007

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I don't know.
When I first heard this song, I was thinking that she's reiterating what someone said to her. As if in a mocking sense, or just a hurting sense.
I partially agree with scene, though. It's kind of like Misery Business in a sense. The same 'I-Don't-Give-A-Damn-About-You' thing.

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whenxitxrains
06-23-2007

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WishingForYou
I think you might be right actually.
I never thougt of it like that, I just thought itseemed strange to be singing the opposite to pretty muh everything ele they've written.
I'm srry my typing's crap, my keyboard is a tad screwed up.
Haha.

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not.sorry
06-25-2007

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Yeah.
I think she's looking at it from a guys perspective, of how he was using her. And she's basically letting her anger rip.

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sugarminded
07-03-2007

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in an article, hayley says that this song is about not feeling the same way about someone who loves you and not letting them know until it is too late and they have already been hurt.

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DangerousKiss
07-04-2007

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This song is so much my life.
Sadly.
There was this guy that I liked but never liked me. Then this other guy that I also liked liked me! But then theother one liked me. I was scared to break his heart and then the other one I was scared he would hurt me. So the other one was my decoy.

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ninjamonkeys
08-03-2007

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i think it's really about...like rebounds, shes using this guy to try and get over the "love that's forgotten her"...but she never really cared for him at all, and he just didn't realise...
best paramore song..

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Koom
08-11-2007

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Hayley said it's about how she used a guy while she loved another. At first, as WishingForYou thought, I believed the song was about what someone did to her, and she was mocking it. But it's the other way around.

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thrwmyhrtawy.
08-30-2007

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yeah, you're right about the whole mocking thing:

Living life inside a dream
Time is changing everything
Forgetting all the memories
And I'm forced into you
Just cause you're into me


that definitely explains it all.
:]

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junkiesong
10-26-2007

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about rebound. trying to use someone to get over someone/make them jealous and saying that they should've realised that.

"And I'm forced into you
Just cause you're into me"
my favourite lyrics here.

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carlycatastrophe
11-17-2007

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mmk
it's about how she's with this guy she's really not all that into and how she's using him because she's trying to forget a past love and it'll all be over soon and she won't be sorry for it. pretty self explanitory.

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xIbaX
11-25-2007

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I love this song to peices but I honestly can't say why...
I did think at first it was about something someone did to her but then when I listened to it again after reading what some people said about the mocking thing I thought it was that. Now I really don't know! xD
But I do agree that it is one of those 'I-Really-Don't-Give-A-Damn' songs either way.

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xIbaX
11-25-2007

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Argh I messed that last post up --
* I did think at first it was about something she did to someone

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DustinHeartWinner10
12-07-2007

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xibax i agree with you fully

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MelMel
12-09-2007

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actually Hayley talked about this song in a live journal reply to a comment someone left in her post "what are you ashamed of?" and basically Hayley had replied to the girl "i cant say ive ever loved someone and longed for another.but I have loved someone and used another.i actually wrote a song about it and I hope it makes the record."


so personally Im guessing Decoy is that song.and it makes perfect sense.
she pretended to like someone just so she could get to another.it was fake.a decoy.i think that basically sums it up in a nutshell.

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awesome_esa
01-10-2008

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the song is about messing with someones feelings and liking it its kinda wrong but i can relate at one point in my life and the person can see it but are to in love and wont let go

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yosareann
01-12-2008

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hayley even said in alternative press, that she has used guys before in order to get over other guys.
its a human thing to do, and unfortunately people do that.
im one of them, how terrible.

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DarthFly0
02-13-2008

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Probably my favorite song by Paramore.

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heidipwnsx
03-04-2008

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Its obvious.
She got screwed over once, and now is trying to mend her heartbreak, by breaking others hearts, in hopes of the short time tghey they are together, she will fall in love like she did with her ex, the one that actually mattered.
He/shes a decoy because shes useing him/her to cover up that shes still hurt, to her ex, to try to make him jealous.
shes useing the person because she finds it feels good to hurt others.
sadly, thats exactly how i am.

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