"This Is Why" lyrics

"This Is Why"

If you have an opinion
Maybe you should shove it
Or maybe you could scream it
Might be best to keep it

To yourself (To yourself)
To yourself (To yourself)

This is why
I don't leave the house
You say the coast is clear
But you won't catch me out
Oh, why?
This is why

Better have conviction
'Cause we want crimes of passion
Survival of the fittest
You're either with us or you can keep it

To yourself (To yourself)
To yourself (To yourself)
To yourself, yourself, yourself
To yourself (To yourself)

This is why
I don't leave the house
You say the coast is clear
But you won't catch me out
Oh, why?
This is why

This is why
I don't leave the house
You say the coast is clear
But you won't catch me out
Oh, why?
This is why

One step beyond your door
It might as well have been a free fall
One step beyond your door
Falling down an endless hall
One step beyond your door
Might as well have been a free fall
One step beyond your door
And I'm floating like a cannonball

This is why
I don't leave the house
You say the coast is clear
But you won't catch me out
Oh, why?
This is why

Ah, ah, this is why
I don't leave the house
You say the coast is clear
But oh, no, you won't catch me out
Oh, why?
This is why


Writer(s): Hayley Nichole Williams, Taylor York, Zach Farro
"This Is Why" is the first track unveiled from Paramore's studio album of the same name. The song was premiered on September 28, 2022, accompanied by a music video directed by Brendan Yates and filmed in Malibu, California.
Hayley Williams said in a statement about this song, "'This Is Why' was the very last song we wrote for the album. To be honest, I was so tired of writing lyrics but Taylor convinced Zac and I both that we should work on this last idea. What came out of it was the title track for the whole album. It summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last three or four years. You'd think after a global pandemic of fucking biblical proportions and the impending doom of a dying planet, that humans would have found it deep within themselves to be kinder or more empathetic or something.
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