| Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
The line "Like a patient on a table" immediately reminded my of Prufrock, very cool I'm not the only one :D After re-reading Prufrock I noticed some other similarities. The first three verses have the same number of lines (12,2,8). The two-line-verse is repeated two times (In the room the women come and go; Talking of Michelangelo. VS Now our lives are changing fast; Hope that something pure can last) One other interesting thing is that Prufrock talks himself in the singular form ("And in short, I was afraid") and switches in the last few lines to plural ("Till human voices wake us, and we drown"). Similarly, this song has quite a distinct transition between the singular and plural form. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.