"When we went to Brazil for the first time, we were staying in Sao Paulo and driving through these slums, miles and miles of shanty towns, and then pulling up to the Hyatt Regency where we were staying, which was a big compound with barbed wire and a guard and stuff. Not being able to go outside because they tell you that they'll kill you to steal your wallett-it was a very strange experience. That was the beginning of the idea for "Black Wave.""
I still don't understand the song completely, but I think the context of "been eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate" is a little more clear.
Win Butler had this to say:
"When we went to Brazil for the first time, we were staying in Sao Paulo and driving through these slums, miles and miles of shanty towns, and then pulling up to the Hyatt Regency where we were staying, which was a big compound with barbed wire and a guard and stuff. Not being able to go outside because they tell you that they'll kill you to steal your wallett-it was a very strange experience. That was the beginning of the idea for "Black Wave.""
I still don't understand the song completely, but I think the context of "been eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate" is a little more clear.