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Arcade Fire The The Suburbs

In the suburbs I I learned to drive And you told me we'd never survive Grab your mother's keys we're leaving You always seemed so sure That one day we

I used to write, I used to write letters I used to sign my name I used to sleep at night Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain But by the

The summer that I broke my arm I waited for your letter I have no feeling for you now Now that I know you better I wish that I could have loved you then

Said your name in an empty room Said your name in an empty room Something I would never do Said your name in an empty room Said your name in an empty

This town's so strange They built it to change And while we're sleeping all the streets, they rearrange And my old friends, we were so different then Before your war against the suburbs

the century Compressed on a tiny screen A dead star collapsing and we could see That something was ending Are you through pretending We saw its signs in the suburbs

Took a drive into the sprawl To find the house where we used to stay in Couldn't read the number in the dark You said let's save it for another day Took

make new Turn into a life that we can live Some cities make you loose your head La la la la la la la la-aa Then there?s suburbs stretched out thin

In the suburbs I I learned to drive And you told me we'd never survive Grab your mother's keys we're leavin' You always seemed so sure That one day we