Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and fronted by the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.

Arcade Fire (2003)
I guess it's time to build a boat Make a raft of our bodies Do you think that it'll float? What I said was not a joke, But you just licked the envelope I'm tired of dating, let's elope But you just licked the envelope.
 * Trees keep fallin' at my feet
 * The Woodlands National Anthem

I drive too fast Said I'd return if I'd ever cared But there's no interstate I find to take me there.
 * Let this love last
 * Vampire Forest Fire

Funeral (2004)
And meet me in the middle The middle of the town And since there's no one else around, We let our hair grow long and forget all we used to know Then our skin gets thicker from living out in the snow.
 * You climb out the chimney
 * Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

if you see a shadow, there's something there.
 * Hey, your old man should know
 * Une Année Sans Lumière

Not really somethin' 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, nobody's home so nobody minds.
 * I woke up with the power out
 * Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

you can't raise a baby on motor oil, just like a seed down in the soil you gotta give it time.
 * They say a watched pot won't ever boil,
 * Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

Love was made to forget it.
 * They say it fades if you let it,
 * Crown of Love

The crown of love is not upon me. If you still want me, please forgive me Because the spark is not within me.
 * If you still want me, please forgive me
 * Crown of Love

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.
 * Somethin' filled up my heart with nothin'
 * Wake Up

Unmarked graves where flowers grow. Hear the soldiers angry yelling, In the river we will go.
 * In the forest we are hiding,
 * Haiti

Come on baby in our dreams, we can live our misbehaviour.
 * People say that your dreams are the only things that save you
 * Rebellion (Lies)

Neon Bible (2007)
It knows not pride or vanity It cares not about your dreams It cares not for your pyramid schemes Their names are never spoken The curse is never broken.
 * The black mirror knows no reflection
 * Black Mirror

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

Your lover was for hire Have you noticed he's been late 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 For you For me It's always for you.
 * Stop now before it's too late
 * Black Wave/Bad Vibrations

While you were fast asleep Into an ocean of violence A world of empty streets You've got your reasons And me I've got mine But all the reasons I gave Were just lies to buy myself some time.
 * Left in the morning
 * Ocean of Noise

B-Sides


Burning bridges, breaking hearts, no home to come home to Burning bridges, breaking hearts, I won't look you in the eye Burning bridges, breaking hearts, caught you in a friendship lie.
 * Burning bridges, breaking hearts, everything they taught us to do
 * Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts

On the hottest summer night Hummingbirds fall all around us Their hearts stopped beating in mid-flight.
 * In my backyard in north Texas
 * Asleep At The Wheel

You won't remember anything Some of us don't believe in time, And some of us don't believe in life But I've been making promises I know I'll never keep One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep.
 * I'll go - one morning cold and grey,
 * Born On A Train

We stood beneath an amber moon And softly murmured someday soon We kissed and clung together.
 * Brazil, when stars were entertaining June,
 * Brazil

Every last second, every last breath that I spent with you The yellow dotted line, reflected in your eyes You scream as the crickets fly in the open window Please don't cry love.
 * I lay on my back in the lake at night in the summer time trying to remember
 * Virgin Mary Highway

I'm gonna feel like shit By the time I get to you Now the sky is turning blue The stars they disappear One by one as the daylights nears And yes you're in my head But that doesn't make you here.
 * But fuck it I love you even if
 * Cars and Telephones

When you pretend it isn't there? Do we really think that it could just disappear?
 * Where does a promise go
 * Accidents

Now it's sleeping like a shadow And I can't wake it up again The stars above used to shine in rows Now nothin' knows quite where it goes And I can't get to sleep again Stars above used to shine on cue Now they're acting a bit confused And I can't make them shine again.
 * City used to shine like El Dorado
 * In The Attic

With radio towers and machines Wasted all my prayers That I can't remember my dreams.
 * So ends my yearlong romance
 * Winter for a Year

If he told her the story she'd have to laugh She feels a distance like a feather He's just a fool for stormy weather I guess that's all, they feel so small His dreams are a boat, he's sailing away She's just a wreck at the end of the day He mails her a letter he should have burned He mails her a letter he should have burned.
 * He fell in love with a photograph
 * Sonata