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About This Track
Arcade Fire Songs can be triggered by a simple act. According to The Suburbs Songfacts, frontman Win Butler was sent a photograph of an old school friend of his, who was standing with his daughter sitting on his shoulders “at the mall around the corner from where we lived”. He added: “The combination of seeing this familiar place and seeing my friend with his child brought back a lot of feeling from that time. I found myself trying to remember the town that we grew up in and trying to retrace as much as I could remember.”
At the same time, other Arcade Fire band members of a similarly suburban origin across Canada had revisited their childhood environs and, in some cases, found there was not much left: buildings were boarded up, if they still existed at all; new roads and rivers had magically appeared, altering the landscape that now only existed in faded photographs. When they reconvened, this was the first song they wrote. Said Win: “We started working on the song, and once that started to sound like music it felt like we were making an album.”
At the same time, other Arcade Fire band members of a similarly suburban origin across Canada had revisited their childhood environs and, in some cases, found there was not much left: buildings were boarded up, if they still existed at all; new roads and rivers had magically appeared, altering the landscape that now only existed in faded photographs. When they reconvened, this was the first song they wrote. Said Win: “We started working on the song, and once that started to sound like music it felt like we were making an album.”
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G0DSTAR wrote:
Gorgeous.
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seanbonner1 wrote:
Instant classic. This song will either age beautifully or never age.
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hoo_ha_man wrote:
this song is still relevant
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matt1337c wrote:
This song has such amazingly potent imagery. I remember listening to this for the first time and having my mind blown while Win Butler painted this breathtaking scene of decaying suburbia.
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superpig555 wrote:
we were already already bored
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PriscillaRoquee wrote:
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young? I want to hold her hand and show her some beauty, before all this damage is done
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Rickbeeh wrote:
Unica musica deles que escuto , mt mt mt boa
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niqart wrote:
Many other songs from album "Suburbs" much better than this one.........
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rekonstruct wrote:
Yup, I'm getting on this train a little late, but it's a good one to be on.
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passport90 wrote:
i don't know i just really fucking love this
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alfredopazz wrote:
escuto o dia todo.
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Ginderman37 wrote:
viciante! (5)
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britt-cupcake wrote:
i never got the end of the video though, but i'm so in love with this song!
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panekoeken wrote:
awesome!
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SKATERBLOOD wrote:
GRAB YOUR MOTHERS KEYS WE'RE LEAVING
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funkydory89 wrote:
reminds me of Boston...or any snowy city in winter.
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peterpants wrote:
Its interesting to have been listening to this song while I was single, no kids. The stanza: so can you understand i want a daughter while i'm still young i want to hold her hand show her some beauty before all this damage is done I've since gotten married and now have a beautiful baby daughter that I really do enjoy sharing each day with. So.. this music as good as it was when I first heard it, has gotten better as I hear it over time. So Arcade Fire, cheers for being good at what you do.
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polinoklive wrote:
I'm in love with this song♥
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matt1337c wrote:
Phenomenal opener to the album. Really sets the mood well.
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bernlin2000 wrote:
One of those songs I don't play often, but whenever I return to listen to it, I'm taken in every time :-)
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