@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
We know a place where no planes go
We know a place where no ships go
(Hey) No cars go
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
We know a place no spaceships go
We know a place where no subs go
(Hey) No cars go
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
(Hey)
(Hey)
(Go, go)
(Hey) Us kids know
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
I don't want any pushing, and I don't want any shoving
We're gonna do this in an orderly manner
Women and children
Women and children
Women and children, let's go
Old folks, let's go
Babies needing cribs, let's go
We know a place where no ships go
(Hey) No cars go
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
We know a place no spaceships go
We know a place where no subs go
(Hey) No cars go
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
(Hey)
(Hey)
(Go, go)
(Hey) Us kids know
(Hey) No cars go
Where we know
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
Between the click of the light and the start of the dream
I don't want any pushing, and I don't want any shoving
We're gonna do this in an orderly manner
Women and children
Women and children
Women and children, let's go
Old folks, let's go
Babies needing cribs, let's go
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When I die, I think this will be the last song I hear as I leave my body, and go where No Cars Go.
"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream."
When your perception is taken away, when your senses are stripped away. Nothing else remains. Nothing can take you there. If something, it is like a dream.
I don't really think it is about death. It is about non-existence. Children still remember what it is like not to exist.
Apart from this i agree with on's description.
I love the way they make "no cars go" sound like "no control". Didn't explore that, but it sounds great.
@fullmooninu Oh children "remember non-existence" huh?
i agree with Banjo-Fella. I like to think that this song isn't about death, but its about ending your hectic, crazy day and finding a place where you're all yourself and you're there with your thoughts and the people you love in your mind. it's almost like, no matter what anxiety is being presented in your life "between the click of the light and the start of the dream" nothing can enter or disturb you. no cars, no airplanes...its just you.
"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream"
It's the dark, blank space that he gets to exist in before he's taken away by his dreams. I always figured the part of the end was a nightmare he had or something similar.
"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream" is where no cars go.
I think that RobertTheNaugle is right in saying that the song is somewhat about this wonderful imagination that kids have an inevitably loose someday when faced with harsh realities of life (like making decisions about who is to come first on a life boat). I think the talking underneath is also kinda questioning why we generalise who should be saved by age and sex, Radiohead mentions it in "Idioteque" but i don't know,they probably have some insanely profound reason behind it because they're fucking geniouses.
I read in Rolling Stone that they intended this song to be a teenager's depiction of a utopian place where, of course, "no cars go." "Between the click of the light and the start of a dream" could be the location of such a utopian place - not in reality, but in imagination. Just like what everyone else said, basically.
@blank_distortion I like this meaning\r\n
Everyone here mustn't have spent too much time in school. Your guesses as to the meanings of the song are very far-fetched in light of the true meaning. It's about the closing of a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, and the disastrous effects the closing had on the city (think of Flint, Michigan). The "click of the light" is the final switching off of the lights in the plant on the workers' last day; and the "start of the dream" is everyone wondering what they're going to do next. It's from the perspective of the children of the workers.
Fascinating theory. And if written by Owen Pallet that adds more weight as he is from Toronto I believe. The theory doesn't quite explain everything but Arcade Fire are noted for writing simpler and less esoteric lyrics than they are actually given credit for. And remember that Neon Bible touches on a whole raft of 'wrongs' in society in the first half of the noughties, not just religious issues. If true, then the last quarter of the song, the military march section, must, I presume, represent the protest march gathering steam? Just bear that in mind at a live performance when that drum beat starts up.
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This song reminds me of the holocaust for some reason,<br /> maybe ive been listening to too much neutral milk hotel but it does...<br /> <br /> <br /> I don't want any pushing, and I don't want any shoving. We're gonna do this in an orderly manner. Women and children! Women and children! Women and children, let's go! Old folks, let's go! Babies needing cribs, let's go! <br /> ^ gathering the people,<br /> <br /> and no cars go, nothing worked in the camps.<br /> <br /> Maybe its just me.
I've started to interpret this as that moment when you are about to go to sleep with the person you love, and it fels like just you two in the world, you feel safe and so happy, nothing can rach you, no cars or ships or planes or subs.