Lyric discussion by shelly247 

As someone with not a very squeaky clean past, I retreated into a world of books and movies, preferring not to co-operate with reality.

"She lives in a fairy tale Somewhere too far for us to find Forgotten the taste and smell Of the world that she's left behind"

And then my family moved. New environment, new school (I'd previously been in an all-girl school, this one was co-ed), a lot of new stuff. I ended up liking this guy ("Her prince finally came to save her") that I thought liked me back, but he was just stringing me along ("But it was a trick, and the clock struck twelve"), and I had to do a lot of rebuilding. ("Well, make sure to build your home, brick by boring brick, or the wolf's gonna blow it down")

My world of books and movies had given me a very specific idea of what I wanted my guy to be, and I'd tried to shoehorn this other guy into it ("Well, you built up a world of magic, because your real life is tragic").

Now this song turns up with this timing, and I'd swear it was written about me if I didn't know better. What with all my experiences this past year, and my about to be a legal adult in a few months, I think this song is trying to tell me something.

"Well, go get your shovel And we'll dig a deep hole To bury the castle, bury the castle"

Putting this part of my life to rest, the trauma, the fantasy, is something I'm not particularly willing to do, but maybe it's about time I did - start living in the real world with real people.

that is exactly what i though seeing that i have quit a similar past. my parents divorced when i was five and so i lived in books, drawings, and the story's i wrote. i had this idea about the kind of guy i wanted and then when i found a guy and he ended up stabbing me in the back and splitting up me and my friends i had a lot of work do do on my life. that is why i love paramore, because i swear some of the songs were written about my life.

I know what you mean. I read a lot too & sometimes I think i confused reality with fiction. Like what's plausbile ans what's possible. The lyric that really gets to me is: "Well, if it's not real You can't hold it in your hand You can't feel it with your heart And I won't believe it But if it's true You can see it with your eyes Oh, even in the dark"

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