Genius Lyrics
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Arcade Fire – City with No Children
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The 6th track off Arcade Fire’s Grammy winning masterpiece The Suburbs draws on the album’s introspective themes of youth and adulthood, whilst drawing on biblical imagery. The
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Arcade Fire – Suburban War
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This song is mainly about Win Butler’s old friend, and this song is the main theme of their short film, Scenes From The Suburbs.
In this film, the main character’s best friend
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Arcade Fire – Empty Room
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The fifth track off of Arcade Fire’s third album The Suburbs, this fast-paced tune about loneliness and isolation is one of three tracks on the album to feature lead vocals from
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Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
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The first song on Arcade Fire’s 2010 album The Suburbs. Like their other work, it’s concerned with growing up, but isn’t fictional – it’s about band members Win and Will Butler’s
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Arcade Fire – Half Light II (No Celebration)
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“Half Light II” continues the theme of transition from youth to adulthood. While continuing the ideas of its predecessor, “Half Light II” is louder and more grand in scale as it
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Arcade Fire – Rococo
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A look at conformism in today’s youth.
The major theme is that these young people go around using words such as “Rococo” to sound educated and artsy, without really knowing what
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Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
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This song is capable of being incredibly inspiring to average, everyday listeners just as much as it is to Arcade Fire.
Anyone who has ever worked for “the man” knows how
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Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
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Off of their concept album, The Suburbs, Arcade Fire explore one of the most prominent aspects of suburban life (sprawl) in “Sprawl II” (and its predecessor, “Sprawl I”). This
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Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
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One of the most popular songs on Neon Bible, “No Cars Go” is an epic anthem that builds to a joyous climax, but is still one of the most immediate songs in Arcade Fire’s
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Arcade Fire – No Cars Go (EP version)
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We know a place where no planes go! / We know a place where no ships go! / [Chorus] / Hey! / No cars go! / Hey! / No cars go, where we know! / We know a place no spaceships go
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Arcade Fire – Wasted Hours
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[Verse 1] / All those wasted hours we used to know / Spent the summer staring out the window / The wind, it takes you where it wants to go / First, they built the road, then they
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Arcade Fire – Sprawl I (Flatland)
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Sprawl is another word to describe the suburbs. Usually used in the combinations “urban sprawl” or “suburban sprawl”. As Wikipedia describes it:
… describes the expansion of human
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Arcade Fire – Month of May
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By the time The Suburbs came out in 2010, Arcade Fire had already successfully transitioned from indie darlings to hanging with Bruce Springsteen, and their sound started to
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Arcade Fire – Wasted Hours (A Life We Can Live)
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This is an alternate version of track 11 Wasted Hours of The Suburbs that features an extended ending, which is included on the deluxe version of the album (as opposed to having
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Arcade Fire – Culture War
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This song addresses the “culture war” that is occurring between traditionalists and the modern world. Seemingly angered by their pontificating, Butler indicts the conservatives for
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Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Continued)
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The final song on the album, “The Suburbs (Continued)” is a short but poignant testament to the themes of childhood, memory, and growth that run throughout. The Suburbs often looks
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Arcade Fire – Modern Man
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Arcade Fire – Deep Blue
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Deep Blue is the 12th track from Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. The track offers a post apocalyptic take on the decline of human creativity in an increasingly mechanized world.
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Arcade Fire (Ft. David Byrne) – Speaking in Tongues
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[Verse 1] / 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? / [Refrain
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