I love this song! Lots of interpretations here. I'm not sure what it might mean exactly, but when I listen to this song, it reminds me of back when I used to live in a suburban neighborhood over 7 years ago. It gives me a nostalgic feeling of when I was a young kid, and would run around with my friends, playing a bunch of "pretend" games. "In my dreams we're still screaming, and running through the yards". And now that I've moved miles away from my childhood friends, and now that they've grown older and moved on with their lives, even if I went back it wouldn't matter. It seems like my 9 years living there "meant nothing at all" but to have left me with memories of a world I can never relive.
This is great. This is exactly what I feel. I imagine my childhood when I listen to this song. It actually made me breakdown and cry at one point b/c I miss my old house, my old neighborhood, my old friends and their innocence, my younger sisters and their innocence, my own innocence.
This is great. This is exactly what I feel. I imagine my childhood when I listen to this song. It actually made me breakdown and cry at one point b/c I miss my old house, my old neighborhood, my old friends and their innocence, my younger sisters and their innocence, my own innocence.
This is obviously what the song is about - nostalgia for youth.
This is obviously what the song is about - nostalgia for youth.
What boy growing up in the '80s never imagined that eventually their whole town would be consumed in a huge war between the subdivisions?
What boy growing up in the '80s never imagined that eventually their whole town would be consumed in a huge war between the subdivisions?
And now, like Zed says above, we can only look back. We can never GO back, because even when we visit, it's a different place now, with different kids.
And now, like Zed says above, we can only look back. We can never GO back, because even when we visit, it's a different place now, with different kids.
Half the houses they built in the seventies are already gone, and in 20 years, the other half will be gone, too. And then we'll be gone. But did it all really mean nothing? Or are our memories of growing up on dirt bikes, wasting time in the suburbs, valuable in their own right? I can't answer, and neither can the Arcade Fire... but it sure hurts your soul to think that those times are gone and will never return.
Unless, maybe, you are able to watch your own child live through their own youth... and the world still holds the same beauty that it did for us.
MAN, this song hurts to listen to. It's like getting kicked in the soul. And still I love it.
I love this song! Lots of interpretations here. I'm not sure what it might mean exactly, but when I listen to this song, it reminds me of back when I used to live in a suburban neighborhood over 7 years ago. It gives me a nostalgic feeling of when I was a young kid, and would run around with my friends, playing a bunch of "pretend" games. "In my dreams we're still screaming, and running through the yards". And now that I've moved miles away from my childhood friends, and now that they've grown older and moved on with their lives, even if I went back it wouldn't matter. It seems like my 9 years living there "meant nothing at all" but to have left me with memories of a world I can never relive.
This is great. This is exactly what I feel. I imagine my childhood when I listen to this song. It actually made me breakdown and cry at one point b/c I miss my old house, my old neighborhood, my old friends and their innocence, my younger sisters and their innocence, my own innocence.
This is great. This is exactly what I feel. I imagine my childhood when I listen to this song. It actually made me breakdown and cry at one point b/c I miss my old house, my old neighborhood, my old friends and their innocence, my younger sisters and their innocence, my own innocence.
This is obviously what the song is about - nostalgia for youth.
This is obviously what the song is about - nostalgia for youth.
What boy growing up in the '80s never imagined that eventually their whole town would be consumed in a huge war between the subdivisions?
What boy growing up in the '80s never imagined that eventually their whole town would be consumed in a huge war between the subdivisions?
And now, like Zed says above, we can only look back. We can never GO back, because even when we visit, it's a different place now, with different kids.
And now, like Zed says above, we can only look back. We can never GO back, because even when we visit, it's a different place now, with different kids.
Half the houses they built in the seventies are already gone, and in 20 years, the other half will be gone, too. And then we'll be gone. But did it all really mean nothing? Or are our memories of growing up on dirt bikes, wasting time in the suburbs, valuable in their own right? I can't answer, and neither can the Arcade Fire... but it sure hurts your soul to think that those times are gone and will never return.
Unless, maybe, you are able to watch your own child live through their own youth... and the world still holds the same beauty that it did for us.
MAN, this song hurts to listen to. It's like getting kicked in the soul. And still I love it.