Lyrics for Backyards as interpreted by sexautomata

Backyards Lyrics
Broken boys look good sitting on their shoes
Silent waves responds expose to fear
Library cards, rented faces, lying on the naked train
Hard parades with nothing skin
Things that breathe way too thin

They lost their lives in backyards
They lost their lives in backyards

They lost their lives in backyards
They lost their lives in backyards

Elevator, red blue stain, best of things
Half way between things and times, a kill
Library cards, rented faces, lying on the naked train
Highways and major club smell stale, almost eyes, a thousand things

They lost their lives in backyards
They lost their lives in backyards

They lost their lives in backyards
They lost their lives in backyards

It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just
It's a hard parade
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
It's a hard parade, just be courageous
Be courageous
Be courageous
Be courageous
Be courageous
Hard parade just, be courageous
Hard parade just, be courageous
It's a hard parade just, be courageous
It's a hard parade just, be courageous
It's a hard parade just, be courageous
It's a hard parade just, be courageous


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headlessparrot
06-22-2004

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I read somewhere that this was actually put together by the band as a final project for one of the members' (either Emily or Leslie, I'm not sure) university degree in performing arts.

They better have gotten perfect, because this is an absolutely spellbinding song... It struck me almost right away as a prequel or sequel to Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl. It has the same sort of melody and instrumentation...

But great song.

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Canadian Guy
10-29-2004

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I like this song much more than Anthems for a Seventeen -Year Old Girl. I love it's groove. It does drag on for a bit near the end. Definitely one of the best tracks released in 2004.
What do you think the song is about, I think it's about being a kid and living day for day.

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guiltycubiclez
12-19-2004

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Canadian Guy... you from GameFAQs? I haven't had a chance to hear this song yet, is it on Beehives?

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LateNiteBedroomPop
01-13-2005

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this song. irreverant. beautiful. life-saving. tragic.

i've written an entire screenplay based around it.

<3 broken social scene.

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faded24
02-05-2005

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I could have sworn that it's "It's hard for angels to be courageous" but it does make more sense this way. Either way, it is indescribable live.

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sanscosm
03-06-2005

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pretty song.

"hard parade"?? anyone?

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backy
11-12-2005

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it's a theme song to a few teenagers sitting in a circle on the floor of a room in a house party. the beat of music from the other rooms overlapped by a mellow song that is backyards playing from a stereo in the corner. they spent that night drinking, getting high, throwing fireworks behind the house, screwing around, dancing, playing cards. and there were these connections through eyes and body that every person in the room felt and experienced. they felt so surreal and incredibly light. the feelings of that night are evoked on this song.

i'd love to shoot a scene on this song.

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LateNiteBedroomPop
12-13-2005

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the most perfect song these ears have ever, ever heard.

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Bandwitch
02-21-2006

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i just listened to this song for the first time ever
WOW
the most amazing 8 minutes of my life
her voice is so delicate

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Bandwitch
02-23-2006

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www.myspace.com/brokensocialscene4life

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ProudesterMonkey
04-04-2006

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Backy- I think there is considerable evidence against your idealistic picture of this song.
"Silent waves responds expose to fear" is pretty harsh, not as harsh as "a kill" and "rented faces, lying on a naked train" later on.

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The_Variable
05-03-2006

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Just to sort of confirm the first comment, I just got this c.d. from amazon and it says it's emily haines on this track.

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TheShoreline
01-17-2007

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When I hear this song I think of just life, things growing and the beautiful color of bright green. Beautiful song, it makes me so relaxed and I feel so beautiful when I listen to it.

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TheShoreline
02-08-2007

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Due to backys comment it kinda makes sense why the chorus goes "they lost their lives in backyards."

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Indie Me
04-18-2007

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The first line is "Broken boys look good sitting on their shelves" not "...on their shoes."

And The Variable is right, it is Emily Haines.

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quachy
05-21-2007

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i always thought it was:
"Broken boys look good sitting on their shelves
Sideways with spines exposed to fear"
i dunno, it just made a lot more sense to me that way.

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Indie Me
05-21-2007

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That makes at least as much sense as what's posted.

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imaginaryordinary
06-22-2007

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I thought this song was about going through a really old dusty library because i thought the first line way "broken books look good sitting on their shelves sideways with spines exposed to fear"
I thought the people who "lost their lives in the backyard" was referring to an outdated newpaper archive that everyone had forgotten about or a fictional character
even though I know the right lyrics, I still like this interpretation because I just love going to bookstores and libraries and sitting in the sheleves and reading and this song reminds me of that feeling

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willlliw
08-19-2007

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this song is beautiful. i love it, but it drags on SOOO long. i could do without those last three minutes

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BabyBritian
11-12-2007

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"yeah its definitely sideways with spines exposed to fear" and its also definitely "broken boys" which is confusing because the first three lines would make a lot more sense if it were "broken books" and it might be "tray" instead of train. The lyrics are pretty ambiguous the way she delivers them...which is amazingly well, god i love emily haines too much.

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txstatekate
12-29-2007

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It's a hard parade, just be courageous.... pretty much sums it up.... it's about life...

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_hideyourlovers
06-08-2008

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I never really got a chance to listen to this song until this morning, within five minutes of waking up. Purely beautiful, that is all I really have to say.

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yearofthelamb
06-26-2008

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I may be taking this song to literal, but does anyone else feel that it could be a song about war?

"broken boys", "it's a hard parade, be courageous", "they lost their lives in backyards"

That is what I sort of got out of it.

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edgette
09-01-2008

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i always hear this songs as being about just growing up really.

the whole "they lost their lives in back yards" is to me that she is describing how kids just spend time playing and growing up in their backyards without even being aware of the fact that they are loosing their lives as they know them.

i especially love the line "Half way between things and times, a kill" because it just perfectly describes those moments when you are just ... i don't know chilling and contemplating the very fact that you've grown up and aren't a child anymore.

just such a beautiful song, one of my favourite from BSS.

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onomatopoeia
11-01-2008

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I've always heard "It's a heart parade, just be courageous". I guess "hard parade" makes more sense, haha.
I haven't really read any other posts on here so whatever I have to say probably isn't new, but I think this song is about summer. I think it's about spending summer days just lounging around hanging out with your friends. In the summer you lose track of the time, the date, everything, and so I think "they lost their lives in backyards" is explaining just that.

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