Lyrics for No Cars Go as interpreted by toadtws

No Cars Go Lyrics
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 space ships go
We know a place where no subs go

(Hey!) No cars go
(Hey!) No cars go
Where we know

(Mom!)
(Dad!)
(No go!)

(Hey!) Us kids know
(Hey!) No cars go
Where we know

Between the click of the light and the start of the dream [4x]

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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musikisfun
11-28-2004

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this song is talking about a child hood the writer might of had. It is saying when he wanted to be alone he knew where he would go. Implying the lines 'We know a place where no planes go
We know a place where no ships go, (Hey!) No cars go '. This song was very well written and i give many thanks to the band.

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kasra333
03-01-2005

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very well said ON ... love the way ur brain works

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PittsColt45
04-02-2005

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"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.

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yossarianlives
04-07-2005

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"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream" is where no cars go.

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ixhavexdreams
06-25-2005

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to me this song sort of talks about how the sleep and the dreaming part of the day are sort of an escape for you, from all the pressure and the breaking down the up time you have gives you.

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ixhavexdreams
06-25-2005

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now that i think of it, i guess ON is more right than me.

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pheonix
07-25-2005

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i always thought when i listened to this song that it was talking about heaven. it's saying that no materials or anything go up to heaven with you, just your soul.

the "Between the click of the light and the start of the dream" even suggests the theme of purgatory to me.

i suppose that's just one way to interpret it.

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pheonix
07-25-2005

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let me re-write this sentence that i wrote "it's saying that no materials or anything go up to heaven with you, just your soul."

it's saying that there is only one way to get there: death.

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oxycontin
09-11-2005

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HEY!

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oxycontin
09-11-2005

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HEY!

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oxycontin
09-11-2005

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HEY!

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Heres
09-27-2005

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I don't think they talk about a physical place. In my opinion, it is an ideological place (none of the common vehicles can reach it) which all the pure people like children, women and old folks above all (old folks, so people linked to the old customes) can obtain (it is a social condition, a new way to behave, to think). So it is a sort of criticism to the social terms of the modern society, a theme which is also present in "Rebellion" from "Funeral" album, where people were stimulated to wake up and think with their own brains.

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maryann
11-07-2005

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"(Hey!)
(Hey!)
(Cars go!)"

should really be:
"Mom!
Dad!
No go!"
(arcadefire.net)

which makes sense, because they seem to have a motif of parents and limitations.

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The_Variable
12-03-2005

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I dont know....I'm kind of straying from this how spiritual and death meaning.

I think this song is simply about that moment when your parents click off your lights and your waiting to fall asleep. Your imagination is running wild, and you're in control of your thoughts before you finally drift away and fall asleep.

It's that one moment where everything's quiet and you can think about whatever you need to with no interuptions.

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Waves Of Delusion
01-01-2006

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I don't know why this song is so beautiful to me.

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nursejen
01-01-2006

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"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream" is such a cool analagy to what I think every person has experienced as some point before falling asleep: The awareness that you're succumbing to sleep and your subconscious, while at the same time there's still some rational thought. I love that line!

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nursejen
01-02-2006

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And to add to that last comment, I'd like to say how much I love listening to Win Butler sing about such beautiful and sad ideas...In this song, it's the idea that: Children (and those that take care of them) are the most important people, and their needs should come first...so there's a place where that can happen (away from society, social conscience, technology, man,)...but unfortunately that place exsits in a sort of dream world where we have the power to obtain it but at the same time it feels as far away as that place our mind goes just before falling asleep-- "Between the click of the light and the start of the dream".
This song is also just really cool to listen to...the harmony and accompanying music rocks, as usual.

And to add to another comment, I've been singing it as:
" Mom!
Dad!
Let's go!"

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Arrian
02-01-2006

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This song is one of TAF's best... There's a sense of urgency and chaos that's calming at the same time.

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RobtheNaugle
03-21-2006

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I'm not exactly sure what this song means, I torn between two things. First, I think it could be about dying and going to heaven, meaning in the song "No cars go". Also, I don't this line should be taken seriously "Between the click of the light and the start of the dream". My second notion of what this song could mean is, the imagination that children posess, that state of mind and imagination that can't be reached by vehicles and also adults have lose the ability reach. Anyone think the same as I do?

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TheTreefingers
03-25-2006

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I think musikisfun is the rightest so far.

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hoobastink
03-26-2006

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to me this song is talking about childhood and how innocent children are. When they say, "between the click of a light" its when a baby is born and when they say, "and the start of the dream" its when the child realises that they have to make something of themselves in the outside world theyve just discovered. The time in between is when a child is most innocent-they don't realise the technoloogy that's around them like cars and subs and ships, and the outside world doesn't really come into their life.

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Audaciousmoose
04-16-2006

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I like On's interpretation of the song, but I think IHaveDreams is actually right.

From the click of the light to the start of a dream. From when you turn off the lights, til you go to sleep, you're kind of left alone with your thoughts, this impenetrable place of thought, so that's where no cars, or spaceships, or submarines, can go.

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fullmooninu
06-01-2006

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"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.

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philosophofee
06-12-2006

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Between the click of the light and the start of the dream

I was thinking about this line today, and I came to the same conclusion as hoobastink. I think it can be interperted as anything; going to sleep; dying; but I see it as between a point in ones life. Between when they are told what to do and then actually start living their own dream.
This is such a beautiful song.

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suchahero
06-28-2006

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An amazingly beautiful song.

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