I walk down to the ocean
After waking from a nightmare
No moon, no pale reflection
Black mirror, black mirror
Shot by a security camera
You can't watch your own image
And also look yourself in the eye
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
I know a time is coming
All words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn't mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate to
Le mirroir casse
The mirror casts mon reflet partout
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
The black mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken
The curse is never broken
Un, deux, trois, dis mirroir noir
Black mirror
Un, deux, trois, dis mirroir noir
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black Mirror
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
After waking from a nightmare
No moon, no pale reflection
Black mirror, black mirror
Shot by a security camera
You can't watch your own image
And also look yourself in the eye
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
I know a time is coming
All words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn't mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate to
Le mirroir casse
The mirror casts mon reflet partout
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
The black mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken
The curse is never broken
Un, deux, trois, dis mirroir noir
Black mirror
Un, deux, trois, dis mirroir noir
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black Mirror
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
Black mirror
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Nowadays people can't live without their black mirrors and this curse wil be never broken.
But there are also many disadvantages about living alongside black mirrors such us snooping cameras, stalking and stealing data from your profile and many others. Arcade fire also mentioned their fear about very common fact that our world -as we know it- is getting closer and closer to a very sudden end - for example - 'all words will lose the meaning' this is very wellknown idea - Arcade fire shares this fear with many other artist especially those who are connected with term of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'.
Just try to switch your black mirrors and keep them so for one day, you will find it very hard to look through the black screen and see your reflection.
I think George Orwell would love this song.
But I think they were also referring to tv because like someone said turn it off and look at it, it's a black mirror, it can show you the dead i.e. victims of wars, disasters and can show the future 'show me where them bombs will fall.'
Of course the ocean on a moonless night looks like a grand black mirror.
I love Arcade Fire. They are so smart.
("One two three, say black mirror")
And that's coming straight from Win Butler himself.
"Black mirror knows no reflection, knows not pride or vanity
Cares not about your dreams, cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken, the curse is never broken"
Humankind's eventual downfall doesn't care (metaphorically) about how close you came to ALMOST caring or almost stopping bad things from happening.
To summarise I think its a very scary image of the tv as a souless thing which will serve uncaring in mans will whatever that may be. "Cares not about your dreams, cares not for your pyramid schemes" seems to show this.
Something else that may support my idea is:
"I walked down to the ocean
After waking from the nightmare"
I thought this referred to static noise that can be made by a tv.
And another could be:
"Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken...
Un, duex, trois, dis: miroir noir
[one, two, three, say black mirror]"
I thought this was saying that the awful things we see on tv (preachers begging for money in the name of god for example) could be ended if we woke up realised it on took notice of the tv as something which is affecting society quite abruptly.
I really liked the other theories though so I'm not saying mine is definitive.
So yes I agree with steak for chicken, a mirror that shows the truth about the world.
It gives me goosebumps. It's so good.
See Windowsill and Intervention.
Black Mirror could very well be the response to Power Out. The people are told that their apathy needs to end, but their apathy is kept in place by itself. The end finally comes and they are judged with the same apathy that they harbored for so long (Cares not about your dreams, cares not for your pyramid schemes).
Black Mirror's play style takes an unsympathetic tone, matching the content of the lyrics, whereas Power Out had an opposite tone to the lyrics' direct content.
Just some thoughts after reading through the comments. I absolutely LOVE where the Arcade Fire's sound has gone with this album.