It's a Curse

i think this ones about human obstruction, how in living we (humans) must make room for ourselves to grow and expand as we do and with it weve taken away a night sky and replaced it with a thousand highway lights. As the earth had the sky, we have the highways... makes me cringe a bit too.

First let me say this is one of my all-time favorite songs, but you're reading waaay too much into the lyrics. Many of the Wolf Parade songs have deeper meanings and deal with ghosts and the dead and whatnot...but this is not one of them. Some of the "dead" lyrics imho are incorrect, as in "the EYES are dead, but the body don't mind".

"drive west until we ran out of land"

"We walked five whole minutes To the dark edge of town Took a long look at nothing And turned back around"

Now what activity can you do whilst both driving and walking to the dark edge of town? And why would you look at nothing and turn back around?

Exactly. So smoke 'em if you got 'em.

My mother used to stop her car every time she saw a dead animal in the road to move it to the side. She said she couldn't stand how people would rather just crush once living creatures into the pavement.

Whenever anyone asked how she'd like to be put to rest, she would shrug and say "I don't care. I'll be dead." She just hated how little respect people gave to life.

This song reminds me of that.

I miss her every day. She was too good for this world.

Wow, I can't believe nobody has commented on this song yet. I think it's great, probably one of my favorite Wolf Parade songs. It's just so damn catchy.

"Just the other night Body twisted in a pattern You know they stare at the light They are too dead but the body don't mind"

I think the "they are too dead" part is talking about people who are kind of mentally or spiritually drifting through life just going through the motions and never really being happy.

You know a neutral sky And nothing to do at night Little highway lights They shine

Then the neutral sky part is talking about life being neautral with nothing good ever happening and the highway lights I think, symbolize hope or something positive like that.

From the top of the mountain To the rock and sand Drive a dead farther west Til they ran out of land We walked five whole minutes To the dark edge of town Took a long look at nothing And turned back around

Then I think that part is about not being able to find happiness and just going back to having a mediocre boring life. It's kind of late so I hope that made some sense. :\

little highway lights reminds me of that one arcade fire song.... headlights look like diamonds. actually it reminds me of in the backseat to.....

while i completely agree with what positive tension is saying i find some irony that the sky is neutral and the highway lights shine. It's sort of like saying how we've taken the stars from the sky (by polluting the air) and though we've made our own new night lights it's really just the same as when the light came from stars. That was really badly explained, but I hope you have some idea of what i mean.

This song is good.

It's obviously about a zombie attack, you guys. I love this song, and it took me forever to find the accurate lyrics (these are missing some), but come on! It's obvious :) Though I'm sure there's something deeper, it just seems to fit soooo nicely.

meanadwine has a good point

this song geves me the creeps

meanadwine has a good point

this song geves me the creeps