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Vampire/Forest Fire Lyrics
You want to be set apart?
Burn all of your art, repair the wasteful part
I'm a vampire in a forest fire
Hey, we all got to keep warm
Driving towards the storm
Your father was a pervert
Face down in the dirt
He taught you how to hurt
My father was a miner who lived in the suburbs
Let's live in the suburbs
If I let where I'm from burn, I can never return!
My brother reads you and me his new poetry
How embarassing
Your sister pours the gasoline
I'll fix your meals
While your burns heal!
Find a house, you don't have to rebuild
Stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail
My father never meant to leave me this
Let this love last
I drive too fast
Said I'd return if I'd ever cared
But there's no interstate I find to take me there
Burn all of your art, repair the wasteful part
I'm a vampire in a forest fire
Hey, we all got to keep warm
Driving towards the storm
Face down in the dirt
He taught you how to hurt
My father was a miner who lived in the suburbs
Let's live in the suburbs
If I let where I'm from burn, I can never return!
How embarassing
Your sister pours the gasoline
I'll fix your meals
While your burns heal!
Stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail
My father never meant to leave me this
Let this love last
I drive too fast
Said I'd return if I'd ever cared
But there's no interstate I find to take me there
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Uuuuuuggghhh. Those last few minutes are TOO incredibly gorgeous.
Lost prophets digging in the flirting sands for the one that got away. Oh god, it is just like the first time I discovered loss...
Oh my god, the Arcade Fire is probably my favorite band, and this song just takes the goddamn cake. The lyrics are soooooo beautiful. CONFRONT YOUR PAST.
and the end is the most beautiful sounds ever made by a guitar.
omg i love thbis song so much esspecially the ending its so awwesome and i jsut cant belive how good tgheya re i dont think ireally know what tis about but soemthiung bout the past seems about right like recalling things that happened and trying to move on
Being a vampire in a forestfire couldn't be a good thing. Although I can't say I fully understand that metaphor, I think I get what it's trying to get at.
ok, I maybe completely wrong but don't vampires live in forests? so maybe its something along the lines of the persons home is being burned down/destroyed. or maybe he's a vampire in the forest and he's trying to run away from the flames before they overcome him I DON'T KNOW. those are just some impressions that I got
and could someone please explain how confronting your past and loss tie into this song?
the past part comes from the first few lines, 'you want to be set apart? burn all of your art' which depicts someone trying to distroy their old selves to get away. loss comes from the many examples of one of the characters houses burning down
the past part comes from the first few lines, 'you want to be set apart? burn all of your art' which depicts someone trying to distroy their old selves to get away. loss comes from the many examples of one of the characters houses burning down
I LOVE THE LAST VERSE. find a house you don't have to rebuild. it's seems that all arcade fire music is about growing up and a loss of innocence. he's singing about how she wants to burn everything about her past (her sister is somehow catalysing this "your sister pours the gasoline") and he thinks "if I let where I'm from burn I can never return". however he seems to understand where she's coming from- she's had a harsh past and he'll take care of her and let her use his past (house) but confronting the past will never be easy "there's no interstate to take me there". the song uses clear and familiar symbolism- perhaps cause the win's brother has a degree in poetry?
Too brokenspoons,
Vampires don't live in the forest. They live in Castles. Grant it, the castle could be in the forest, but for the sake of the arguement, this one doesn't. They were created in old times when most people couldn't afford to eat well, and they can. Jealousy blah, blah, they whole "blood sucking" thing comes from how Counts and Dukes suck the life out of people. I'm not entirely sure, but it is deffinately something along those lines. I don't remember what my teacher said exactly.
Anyway, this song is deffinately about confronting your past, or at least, I can really see it being like that. "Your father was a pervert Face down in the dirt He taught you how to hurt"
I get impression that she was abused. Sexually, physically, and emotionally.
"Your sister pours the gasoline I'll fix your meals while your burns heal!"
[The person he's singing about]'s sister was obviously abused as well. Pouring the gasoline means getting ready to destroy your past, forget about it and to never look back.
"If I let where I'm from burn I can never return!" He confronted the problem of the past instead of running away from it, I guess. I'm not entirely sure about it. But I think it's something like that.
I hope that makes sense, and you can see how it ties into Confronting your past.
"'If I let where I'm from burn I can never return!' He confronted the problem of the past instead of running away from it, I guess. I'm not entirely sure about it. But I think it's something like that."
"'If I let where I'm from burn I can never return!' He confronted the problem of the past instead of running away from it, I guess. I'm not entirely sure about it. But I think it's something like that."
I think what they were going for was more along the lines of running away, and not being able to come back. If the "burning" going on in this song refers to just metaphorically setting fire to the past, a.k.a. running away without confronting it, then they can't go back to that place, whether it's a physical or...
I think what they were going for was more along the lines of running away, and not being able to come back. If the "burning" going on in this song refers to just metaphorically setting fire to the past, a.k.a. running away without confronting it, then they can't go back to that place, whether it's a physical or mental state. One way of seeing it is pure embarrassment, not being able to return because you were a coward. I also look at it was being too far gone. Once you've set the flames and you let it burn to the ground, you just can't go back. It's too late to confront what you could've before.
I don't know, that's just my two cents.
this song reminds me of edie sedgwick and andy warhol:
1) andy's nickname was drella because he felt like a mix of cinderella and dracula (