Arcade Fire – Speaking in Tongues

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Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother

Your daddy really took it out of you

But did he speak it in tongues?
But did he speak it in tongues?

Sneaking out the windows now

You've got the spirit now

Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother

Where did we lose our way?

It's like we're speaking in tongues
It's like we're speaking in tongues

Sneaking out the windows now

You've got the spirit now
You've got the spirit now
You've got the spirit now

Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother

Now I can't understand a word

Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)

Come out of your head
And into my world now

Come out of your head
And into my world, my world, my world now

(Speaking in tongues)
(To end)

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Track duration: 03:52


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  • +1
    General Comment:Good catch on the Wasteland reference! As Eliot and his contemporaries like Yeats were very interested in mysticism and the occult, including automatic writing and speaking in tongues, there's certainly a connection there.

    Also, keep in mind Eliot was himself alluding to the classic Baudelaire poem, "Au Lecteur" ("To the Reader")

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    Flag benjam326on June 02, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:a very good song :)
    Flag Fatzerson May 30, 2011   Link
  • +2
    General Comment: "Hypocrite reader, my double, my brother!" Why, an allusion to one of my favorite lines in Eliot's The Waste Land? Already this song has won over my heart. What a phenomenal band.
    Flag snadwichon May 26, 2011   Link

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