Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Mattzillaman 

Cover art for Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts lyrics by Arcade Fire

This song carries on the idea of Neighborhoods from funeral except now the towns been boarded up and is being burned. I suppose that means its about things degenerating and that everything comes to an end.

The lyrics "took a visit to your old house. the windows were all boarded up. try to hold the memory of the ocean in a paper cup. there is no future in this town. they barricade the buildings there. to the lion, you’ve been cast. only bones are gonna last." are about things ending and dying and trying to remember the good times but not being able to because the places you remeber are all delapidated. Its quite sad really - sounds great though, I hope they put this on the next album.