| Arcade Fire – Wake Up Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's obviously about growing up and figuring out your religion was a lie, (been there) and feeling sad that the emotion you felt was just you being emotionally manipulated (been there). Then adjusting, because being sad is better than living a lie (been there). But as soon as you decide adjust you realize that it gives you the feeling and the freedom of thought you where looking for (been there). And if that feeling had a sound it would sound just like that loud vocal part right after he says "adjust". But hey, maybe I'm just a dumb atheist who wants every song to be about religion being a lie. For all I know it could be about waking up from a long nap and seeing the world more clearly for the first time.. wait... it is. ;) |
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| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Probably wrong but here we go. Side fact to keep in mind: I had a teacher who grew up during the cold war, she said she had history teacher that convinced her and the other students that the Russians where gonna bomb them and start a nuclear war any day. I remember her saying "He convinced me I was gonna die". Just remember that cause that's really important to what I think the song means. Ok, so I think the songs about trying to recapture a feeling. What feeling? "The Suburbs" Ok, simple enough a song about childhood, but what's with all the Cold War references? "And you told me we'd never survive" "Bombs fell" "Walls they built in the 70's finally fall" (Berlin wall)? That's got to be important. So here's what I think. There trying to recapture the "unworried-uncaring-having-fun-anyway" type of feeling that the kids who where told "you'll never survive" (literally) had, during the Cold War. Let me explain, and remember that fact I told you earlier. All the kids where told about the chance they where gonna be bombed and die from there parents. They where probably really scared but you think they stayed inside all day watching the news seeing if they where about to get bombed like most the adults did? No. They tried to forget about it and stop being scared. They went and played outside and rode there bikes and had fun with there friends like they would normally. ("Sometimes I can't believe it. I'm movin' past the feeling.") But that's over and there's not as much to worry about now,("And all of the walls (berlin wall) that they built in the seventies finally fall And all of the houses (communist party?) they build in the seventies finally fall. Meant nothin' at all.") but there still always worried and it's like no one told them the it was over. (It's already passed. So move your feet from hot pavement and into the grass .Cause it's already passed. It's already, already passed!) some still find something to worry about and be afraid of, they don't have as much fun, they have more stress, and they don't go out with there friends as much as they use to, even though it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to always worry about something, you can just have fun a forget all your worries for a bit, like those kids in the suburbs.That feeling is what this song is trying to recapture. The song is trying to give you an emotion, your not supposed to understand the meaning of the lyrics, the writers just use the lyrics for themselves so they know there being genuine, if your song has an honest meaning the emotion will come out with out you even trying. Does that make sense? It's 5:45 in the morning here and I'm tried so sorry if that was just pointless babel to you. Most of it was probably shit but that's just what I thought. ;) Take care. :) |
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| Arcade Fire – Afterlife Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Oh, and watch the new music video to this, that's where I got a lot of this from. :) | |
| Arcade Fire – Afterlife Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well, I don't know the best way to word it but basically its about losing someone that means everything to you (not like breaking up, but actually them passing away) and how it's hard to accept it, so you take comfort in the ideal of an afterlife. Thinking that you'll get to see them again when you die. So your life becomes this dull and meaningless thing you just have to wait through until you get to see the one that means everything to you again in the afterlife. Only one problem with that though: The afterlife isn't real, and you just spent the only life you'll ever get waiting for something that will never happen. People think the ideal of an afterlife is ok because it gives some people comfort, but it's doesn't do that, it hurts them because it makes there life seem more meaningless. If only they could accept that they'll never see them again, it would make there life better, they'd still cry about it sometimes but maybe they could realize at least they where a good person and at least they got to spend part of there life together, and if all it ever was was that, It'd be worth it. But the afterlife ideal won't let you see that. "Afterlife, oh my god what an awful word." Oh, and the lyrics are a conversation between the writer that knows there's no afterlife, ("Afterlife: I see right through you like looking through a window") and someone in the situation above where they lost there loved one. ("But you say... If love is gone where did it go? Oh, we know it's gone, but where did it go? And where do we go?") And I think if you listen closely the last couple of lines when "It's just an afterlife" is echoed, the "F" sound goes away, changing to "It's just an afterlie". Could be wrong, that's what I think at least. |
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