Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
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Album Review
Release date: 02 August 2010
Album review: Arcade Fire - 'The Suburbs' (Mercury)
Arcade Fire explore the past and make bold steps forward for their ambitious but accessible masterpiece
You can tell a lot about someone by their touchstone words. Key nouns, cropping up again and again, leave trails like psychic footprints. Some words that recur and ring through the work of Arcade Fire : ‘kids’, ‘parents’, ‘car’, ‘town’, ‘city’, ‘house’, ‘home’. If ‘ Funeral ’ celebrated neighbourhood origins and bristled with spiky youthful energies, and ‘...
- Jul 30, 2010
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- The Suburbs
- Ready to Start
- Modern Man
- Rococo
- Empty Room
- City With No Children
- Half Light I
- Half Light II (No Celebration)
- Suburban War
- Month of May
- Wasted Hours
- Deep Blue
- We Used to Wait
- Sprawl I (Flatland)
- Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Lyrics
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Lyrics
In the suburbs I
I learned to drive
And you told me we'd never survive
Grab your mother's keys we're leaving
Arcade Fire - Ready To Start Lyrics
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
Arcade Fire - Modern Man Lyrics
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....
Arcade Fire - Rococo Lyrics
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.
Arcade Fire - Empty Room Lyrics
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
Arcade Fire - City With No Children Lyrics
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
Arcade Fire - Half Light I Lyrics
You told us that
We were too young
Now that night's closing in
And in the half light
Arcade Fire - Half Light II Lyrics
Now that San Francisco's gone,
I guess I'll just pack it in.
Wanna wash away my sins,
In the presence of my friends.
Arcade Fire - Suburban War Lyrics
Let's go for a drive
See the town tonight
There's nothing to do but I'll unwind when I'm with you
Arcade Fire - Month Of May Lyrics
One two three four!
Gonna make a record in the month of May
In the month of May in the month of May
Arcade Fire - Wasted Hours Lyrics
Oh those wasted hours, we used to know
Spent the summer starin' out the window
The wind it takes you where it wants to go
Arcade Fire - Deep Blue Lyrics
Here
Are my place and time
And here in my own skin
I can finally begin
Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait Lyrics
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
Arcade Fire - Flatland Lyrics
Took a drive into the sprawl
To find the house where we used to stay in
Couldn't read the number in the dark
You said let's save it for another day
Arcade Fire - Mountains Beyond Mountains Lyrics
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 towards the surface
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Continued Lyrics
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
