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1. «The Suburbs» 5:14
2. «Ready to Start» 4:15
3. «Modern Man» 4:39
4. «Rococo» 3:56
5. «Empty Room» 2:51
6. «City with No Children» 3:11
7. «Half Light I» 4:13
8. «Half Light II (No Celebration)» 4:25

An old man has a heart attack in the movie theater
While my friend calls an ambulance
Buster Keaton’s dancing
I wait for the punchline
But it never comes

Two blind kids in wheelchairs are crossing the street
And they get hit by the ambulance

Afterlife. Oh my God, what an awful word.
After all the breath, and the dirt, and the fires that burnt.
And after all this time, and after all the ambulances go,
And after all the hangers-on are done hanging on in the dead light of the afterglow,
I've gotta know...

Can we work it out?
If we scream and shout till we work it out?

Stop now before it’s too late
Been eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate
Nothing lasts forever that’s the way it’s gotta be
There’s a great black wave in the middle of the sea (for me)

Stop now before it’s too late
I’m eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate
Nothing lasts forever that’s the way it’s gotta be

I walked 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

Burning bridges, breaking hearts
Everything you taught us to do
We’re burning bridges, and breaking hearts
No home to come home to
We’re burning bridges, and breaking hearts
I won’t look you in the eye
And burning bridges, breaking hearts
Caught you in a friendship lie

Where we gonna go
I’m gassed up, I’m ready to go
Grab your jacket, let’s hit the road
We can’t wait any longer, let’s go

She’s looking out the window
And her baby starting to show
From five months ago

The summer that I broke my arm
I waited for your letter
I have no feeling for you now
Now that I know you better

I wish that I could have loved you then
Before our age was through
And before a world war does with us

In the middle of the summer
I'm not sleeping
Cold wind blowing
In the middle of the night they
Try to find me but I'm still driving
If you're going to San Francisco
Lay some flowers on the grave stone
There's music on the station

Some boys hate themselves
Spend their lives resenting their fathers
Some girls hate their bodies
Stand in the mirror and wait for the feedback

Saying
God, make me famous
If you can't just make it painless

They say it fades if you let it,
love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
you pray for rain I pray for blindness.

If you still want me, please forgive me,
the crown of love is fallen from me.
If you still want me, please forgive me,

On the 12th of January
You don't need what you can't carry
Blood will flow into the ocean
Our voices break with the emotion

[Hook]
Crucified, been crucified again

Now the future's staring at me
Like a vision from the past
And I know these crumbs they sold me
They're never going to last

Though we know the culture war
We don't know what it's for
But we've lived a southern strategy

[Verse 1]
Summer's gone and so are you
See the sky electrocute
A thousand boys that look like you
Cover my eyes electric blue

[Refrain]
Now I can't get my head around it

Said your name, in an empty room.
Said your name, in an empty room.
Something I would never do.

Said your name, in an empty room.
Said your name, in an empty room.
Something I would never do.
I'm alone again.

[Video Intro]
I'm in the black again
Can't make it back again
We can just pretend
We'll make it home again
From everything now

[Verse 1]

What if the camera really do take your soul? Oh no!
What if the camera really do take your soul? Oh no!

Hit me with your flashbulb eyes.
Hit me with your flashbulb eyes.
You know I’ve got nothing to hide.
You know I’ve got nothing.
You know I’ve got... nothing.

You want to get messed up?
When the times get rough
Put your favourite record on baby
And fill the bathtub up
You want to say goodbye
To your oldest friends

With the good God damn

Haïti, mon pays,
wounded mother I'll never see.
Ma famille set me free.
Throw my ashes into the sea.

Mes cousins jamais nés
hantent les nuits de Duvalier.
Rien n'arrete nos esprits.

You told us that
We were too young
Now that night’s closing in
And in the half light
We run

Lock us up safe
And hide the key

The red lights mean you’re leaving
The white one’s mean returning
Tell me how this story ends
And I’ll keep them fires burning

The headlights look like diamonds
The taillights burn like coals
Tell me how this story ends

When the sun goes down,
When then sun goes down
You head inside.

'Cause the lights don't work,
Yeah nothing works -
They say you don't mind.

Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time.

I hurt myself again, along with all my friends.
Feels like it never ends, here comes the night again.

Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time. Here comes the night time.

You hurt yourself again, along with all your friends.

I like the peace
in the backseat,
I don't have to drive,
I don't have to speak,
I can watch the country side,
and I can fall asleep.

My family tree's

Infinite content
Infinite content
We're infinitely content

Infinite content
Infinite content
We're infinitely content

The king's taken back the throne
The useless seed is sown
When they say they're cutting off the phone
I'll tell 'em you're not home

No place to hide
You were fighting as a soldier on their side
You're still a soldier in your mind

Every night my dream's the same
Same old city with a different name
Men are coming to take me away
I don't know why, but I know I can't stay

There's a weight that's pressing down
Late at night you can hear the sound
Even the noise you make when you sleep

So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man
And the people behind me, they can't understand
Makes me feel like
Makes me feel like

So I wait in line, I'm a modern man
And the people behind me, they can't understand
Makes me feel like

She said I’m sorry baby I’m leaving you tonight
I found someone new he’s waitin’ in the car outside
Ah honey how could you do it
We swore each other everlasting love
She said well yeah I know but when
We did – there was one thing we weren’t
Really thinking of and that’s money -

One two three four!

Gonna make a record in the month of May
In the month of May, in the month of May
Gonna make a record in the month of May
When the violent wind blows the wires away

Month of May, it's a violent thing

I woke up with the power out,
not really something to shout about.
Ice has covered up my parents hands
don't have any dreams don't have any plans.

I went out into the night,
I went out to find some light.
Kids are swingin' from the power lines,

A vial of hope and a vial of pain,
In the light they both looked the same.
Poured them out on into the world,
On every boy and every girl singing

It’s the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival,
If the Neon Bible is right.

We know a place where no planes go
We know a place where no ships go

(Hey!) No cars go
(Hey!) No cars go
Where we know

We know a place no space ships go

Is anything as strange as a normal person?
Is anyone as cruel as a normal person?
Waiting after school, you want to know if you're normal too
Well, are you?

I'm so confused, am I a normal person?
You know, I can't tell if I'm a normal person, it's true
I think I'm cool enough, but am I cruel enough...

[Verse 1]
In my dreams you're dying
It wakes me up, and I can't stop crying
I just wanna live forever
Keep my promises, keep it together
In my dreams you're living
Open your eyes, and I wake up forgiven
Just a little something to thin the blood

Take the makeup off your eyes.
I’ve got to see you, hear your sacred sighs.
Before the break up, comes the silence.
I’m talking to you. You say you’re over it, but I know.

I thought I knew you. You thought you knew me.
But now that you do, it’s not so easy now that I know.

Put your money on me
'Cause I can barely breathe
Put your money on me
Put your money on me
If you think I'm losing you, you must be crazy
All your money on me
I'm never gonna let you go, even when it's easy
Put your money on me

Businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
And I guess I'll just begin again
You say can we still be friends

If I was scared
I would
And if I was bored

Trapped in a prison, in a prism of light
Alone in the darkness, darkness of white
We fell in love, alone on a stage
In the reflective age

[Pre-Chorus - Régine Chassagne]
Entre la nuit, la nuit et l’aurore.
Entre le royaume des vivants et des morts.

Trapped in a prism
In a prism of light
Alone in the darkness
Darkness of white
We fell in love
Alone on a stage
In the reflective age

Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids
Let's go downtown and talk to the modern kids
They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don't understand
They say

Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo

She is the one who plays the piano
He is the one who wants to learn
She is the one who touched his heart
He made too much of this of course

I guess that’s all
They feel so small
He is the one who wants the crowd to disappear

Hypocrite, reader, my double my brother
Your daddy really took it out of you
But did he speak it in tongues?
But did he speak it in tongues?

(oooh oooh)
Sneaking out the windows now
(oooh oooh)

They heard me singing and they told me to stop
Quit these pretentious things
And just punch the clock
These days my life, I feel it has no purpose
But late at night the feelings swim to the surface

'Cause on the surface the city lights shine
They're calling at me, come and find your kind

Let's go for a drive
See the town tonight
There's nothing to do but I'll unwind when I'm with you

This town's so strange
They built it to change
And while we're sleeping all the streets, they rearrange

I know you’re living in my mind, but it’s not the same as being alive.
I know you’re living in my mind, but it’s not the same as being alive...

Supersymmetry, supersymmetry.

If telling the truth is not polite, then I guess we’ll have to fight.
If telling the truth is not polite, then I guess we’ll have to fight...

It’s a shame about the roadblock,
We’re afraid that we’ll get caught or stopped
Let’s go right now, surf city eastern block
I’m in the trunk my surf board on top

The eighties ain’t been kind to anyone,
I just wanna find myself some sun
It’s 1984, we’re on the run,

In the suburbs, I
I learned to drive
And you told me I'd never survive
Grab your mother's keys, we're leaving

You always seemed so sure
That one day we'd fight in
In a suburban war

I'm serving time
All for a crime I did commit
You want the truth?
You know I'd do it all again
Left for dead
Heaven is only in my head!

I heard a voice

I guess we'll have to move
The neighborhood is on to us
Let's join the little babe's
throwin' rocks in front of us

Riding on my bicycle
I pass my sister on a bus
Let's take the country road before our parents send for us

Something filled up
My heart with nothing
Someone told me not to cry

But now that I'm older
My heart's colder
And I can see that it's a lie

All those wasted hours we used to know
Spent the summers staring out the window
The wind it takes you where it wants to go

At first they built the road then they built the town
That's why we're still driving around and around
And all we see are kids in the buses longing to be free

They're walking around,
Head full of sound,
Acting like we don't exist.
They walk in a room
And stare right through you,
Talking like we don't exist.

But we exist.

I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name

I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain

But by the time we met

William Pierce Butler, my little brother
I know I treat you bad, I know I’m like our dad
When I get scared it’s in the air

William Pierce come here, I know I’m insincere
When I am with my friends, love breaks it never ends
I’ll love you when you’re trapped in sin and doubt
Let’s get out! Let’s get out!

Oh my God, a winter for a year
Oh my God, a winter for a year
And I cleaned out the back of my wardrobe for a year
Jackets never turn into branches
Not while you’re not here

Oh my God, a winter for a year
Oh my God, a winter for a year

"We have fabulous music for the fantastic Arcade Fire!" - Jonathan Ross

Sometimes it moves so fast, sometimes it moves so fast.
If you stop to ask, it’s already passed.
So how can you move so slow?
How can you move so slow?
You miss it if you don’t, you miss it if you don’t already know, already know, already know, already know, already know.

You tried to turn away my fears
Shouting metaphysics in my fifteen year old ears
I dreamed all day of sneaking out the window
A sigh for every other breath
When you are joyful I feel better
You catch a cold that lasts forever

A quest and we are hiding in the shadows

You’re the one that they used to hate, but they like you now.
And everything that goes away, will be returned somehow.
They’re the ones that spit on you, ‘cause they got no heart.
I’m the one that will follow you. You’re my Joan of Arc.

Joan of Arc.

You had a vision they couldn’t see so they put you down.