| Beach House – On the Sea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Nice comment! And yeah, I don't need to *know* what the lyrics mean sometimes...sometimes I just want to feel, and that's what this song does for me. | |
| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It breaks mine, too. It says so much in so few words. | |
| Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I already love this song - hopefully I'll love the rest of their new album just as much. To me, this song is about people who gave up their dreams to get a typical 9-5, corporate-type job. Instead of pursuing their "true love", they pursued a paycheck and a "normal life", and now that they've been laid off from the corporate job that they gave up their dreams for (so when the lights cut out, I was left standing in the wilderness downtown) they want to try pursue those dreams again. The "true love" he never wrote a letter to isn't a person, but his dreams. He used to have these things he did that he loved doing, but eventually he sold out and got a real job and never seriously pursued those dreams. That's why, after he gets laid off from his corporate job, he says he's going to write a letter to his true love, and this time he's going to sign his name, which to me, means he's going to give his dreams a real shot this time. "All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown" - all the people at their corporate jobs, wasting their lives doing work they don't care about instead of pursuing their true loves, i.e., their dreams. I think the chorus "sometimes it never came, we used to wait, still moving through the pain" means that people used to sit around waiting for their lives to get better, and it never happened, and now they've got this life they don't want, and it's hard (i.e. painful) to try and change it, but they realize now that they have to, no matter how painful it is. |
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