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No Turning Around (Original)

Type: Official
Writers: Grace Vanderwaal, Mike Elizondo
Times Performed: 2

Notes

We got the first glimpse of this song when Grace posted a 9-minute video from the studio with her and producer/co-writer Mike Elizondo working on the production.

As it turned out, this was one of the two songs that Grace wrote for Megalopolis. Only a short clip of the song is used in the movie. The song represents the popstar Vesta Sweetwater's break with her previous virtuous and virginal persona after it was discovered that she was not, in fact, 16 (as she had claimed) but 23 (and, it is implied, not actually a virgin either).
(Screenshot from Megalopolis)



Performances

2022.10.26 Venue/place unknown
2024.09.26 Megalopolis (Venue/place unknown) Song not performed by made available online

Reviews, Reactions etc.

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Song related contentEdited clip from the movie posted to fan account

Releases

Release Date Record Type Track
2024-09-27No Turning AroundSingle1
2024-09-27Megalopolis (OST)LP17

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Join the final reason to keep you around
You lift me up, break me, you throw me around

[Pre-Chorus]
And now I’m under your bed and up in your head and you tell me I suck, and wish I were dead
Do you miss the pedestal you put me on?

[Chorus]
Well there goes the dream that you had for me
I, I guess I’m burning it down
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning around
All the fake promises, prisonlike
All your questioning doubt
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around

[Verse 2]
Let the ashes burn through your lungs, feel the pain
It’s just the start of war, of the playing the game

[Pre-Chorus]
And now I’m under your bed and up in your head
And you tell me I suck and wish I were dead
Do you miss the pedestal you put me on?

[Chorus]
There goes the dream that you had for me
I, I guess I’m burning it down
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning around
All the fake promises, prisonlike
All your questioning doubt
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
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[Bridge]
Oh, please. stop being dramatic!
You suck me dry, addicted, fanatic
And now I’m the living disillusion
You’re just mad cause one drink, you lose it!

Oh, please. stop being dramatic!
You suck me dry, addicted, fanatic
And now I’m the living disillusion
You’re just mad cause one drink, you lose it!

[Chorus]
Oh!
There goes the dream that you had for me
I, I guess I’m burning it down
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning around
All the fake promises, prisonlike
All your questioning doubt
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning
It’s all fucked and there’s no turning around

Covers and Remixes

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