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.

Albums

Arcade Fire (2003)

• Trees keep fallin' at my feet
  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.
  • The Woodlands National Anthem

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

Funeral (2004)

• You climb out the chimney
  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.
  • Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

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

• I woke up with the power out
  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.
  • Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neon Bible (2007)

• The black mirror knows no reflection
  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.
  • Black Mirror

• 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.
  • Neon Bible

• Stop now before it's too late
  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.
  • Black Wave/Bad Vibrations

• Left in the morning
  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.
  • Ocean of Noise

B-Sides

City used to shine like El Dorado
Now it's sleeping like a shadow
And I can't wake it up again…

• Burning bridges, breaking hearts, everything they taught us to do
  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

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

• I'll go - one morning cold and grey,
  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.
  • Born On A Train

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

• I lay on my back in the lake at night in the summer time trying to remember
  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.
  • Virgin Mary Highway

• But fuck it I love you even if
  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.
  • Cars and Telephones

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

• City used to shine like El Dorado
  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.
  • In The Attic

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

• He fell in love with a photograph
  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.
  • Sonata

External links

• Official website