Song of the Day #1

Arcade Fire's Funeral

I don't know what it is about Arcade Fire, because I didn't like them at first. The lead singer's voice comes dangerously close to a whine pretty regularly, and they seemed inscrutable (and therefore not appealing) the first few times I listened to them. But they grew on me, and I keep returning to them again and again. As for today's song, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), I have no idea what the lyrics are all about, if anything, but the music is incredible. Understated, mostly acoustic, yet intensely dramatic all the same. There's an organ in the song that drives it through and makes me want to listen again and again. I'm even digging the vocals now. You can download it from Amazon for $0.89.

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

And if the snow buries my,
my neighborhood.
And if my parents are crying
then I'll dig a tunnel
from my window to yours,
yeah a tunnel from my window to yours.

You climb out the chimney
and meet me in the middle,
the middle of town.
And since there's no one else around,
we let our hair grow long
and forget all we used to know,
then our skin gets thicker
from living out in the snow.

You change all the lead
sleepin' in my head,
as the day grows dim
I hear you sing a golden hymn.
Then we tried to name our babies,
but we forgot all the names that,
the names we used to know.
But sometimes,
we remember our bedrooms,
and our parent's bedrooms,
and the bedrooms of our friends.
Then we think of our parents,
well what ever happened to them?

You change all the lead
sleepin' in my head to gold,
as the day grows dim,
I hear you sing a golden hymn,
the song I've been trying to say.
Purify the colors, purify my mind.
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!