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| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is great. This is exactly what I feel. I imagine my childhood when I listen to this song. It actually made me breakdown and cry at one point b/c I miss my old house, my old neighborhood, my old friends and their innocence, my younger sisters and their innocence, my own innocence. |
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| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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NTT not all americans think everything is about the WTC. believe it or not, most of us moved on a long time ago.
stmogilny I really think you're reaching here. don't forget, it's called the suburbs. idk about ny but in the mid-west we replaced a lot of farm fields and woods with walls and homes between 1945 and 1980. i think they're simply refering to the decay (future? or already realized? I'm not sure what win butlet intended. here in a decaying rust-belt city, my natural frame of reference leads me to imagine what i see and know every day) of many of the neighborhoods that were once shiny new suburbs but with the fall of the middle class comes the fall of the homes and walls they once resided in. |
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| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think he's reflecting on passing from the innocence of a childhood spent in the suburbs into adolesence where "kids wanna be so hard" and then further into a cynical adulthood, while simultaneously, middle America passes from the innocence it was allowed during its peak (50s-70s) to a time when the middle class is disappearing. He wants to have a kid before he's too cynical to show her the beauty of the world and also before that beauty has passed. Basically, Gen X is the last innocent generation. The world is changing and he's getting older, but in his dreams he can still re-live his childhood. |
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