| Arcade Fire – Modern Man Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Modernity is widely held to be the promotion of an objective search for truth. Postmodernity, on the other hand, is the rejection of this and the positing of a relativistic or consensus stance on truth. | |
| Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The outro "Now we're screaming/Sing the chorus again" refers to the chorus in the same song, when he used to wait. At the transition to adulthood he wants a lover for whom he waited in adolescence. When he says "sometimes it never came," he refers to past loves that changed and didn't work out; hence, "moving through the pain" leftover from them. And that waiting for a love/lover is the "something so small [that] can keep [one] alive." Because the pure thing he hopes "can last" is love RESERVED for a FUTURE lover. I must say this album is potent for me now at 22, especially since the lyricist and I seem to share the same middle-class, american culture, which makes the transition a nightmare for anyone introverted (and not well connected socially). Love could really get me through this. |
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