Suburban War

By Arcade Fire

On The Suburbs

Released on August 2, 2010

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[Verse 1]

Let’s go for a drive

And see the town tonight

There’s nothing to do

But I don’t mind when I’m with you


[Verse 2]

This town’s so strange

They built it to change

And while we sleep

We know the streets get rearranged

With my old friends

It was so different then

Before your war

Against the suburbs began

Before it began


[Verse 3]

Now the music divides

Us into tribes

You grew your hair

So I grew mine

You said the past won’t rest

Until we jump the fence

And leave it behind

With my old friends

I can remember when

You cut your hair

I never saw you again

Now the cities we live in

Could be distant stars

And I search for you

In every passing car


[Chorus]

The night’s so long

Yeah, the night’s so long

I’ve been living in the shadows of your song

Been living in the shadows of your song


[Verse 4]

In the suburbs, I

I learned to drive

And you told me we would never survive

So grab your mother’s keys, we leave tonight

But you started a war

That we can’t win

They keep erasing all the streets

We grew up in

Now the music divides

Us into tribes

You choose your side

I’ll choose my side


[Outro]

All my old friends, they don’t know me now

All my old friends are staring through me now

All my old friends, they don’t know me now

All my old friends, they don’t know me now

They don’t know me now

All my old friends, wait