I think this song is about how little we see from the world
"the houses hides so much" -think about it, you only see a house but there people living their life in it it's filled with passion, pain, love etc.
"they hide the ocean in the shell" we only see the shell but there's something so much bigger in it.
"our heads are just houses but they don't have enough windows" we don't see enough,
It's actually might be a religious, spiritual song, we only see the material part of our world and the material is so, so little.
I think this song is about how little we see from the world "the houses hides so much" -think about it, you only see a house but there people living their life in it it's filled with passion, pain, love etc. "they hide the ocean in the shell" we only see the shell but there's something so much bigger in it. "our heads are just houses but they don't have enough windows" we don't see enough,
It's actually might be a religious, spiritual song, we only see the material part of our world and the material is so, so little.
But in the half light you suddenly see more.
I think arcade fire is saying many people in our society are the shells and they hide the (Ocean)-emotions, passion, love..etc within ourselves.
I think arcade fire is saying many people in our society are the shells and they hide the (Ocean)-emotions, passion, love..etc within ourselves.