C                         Em      Am   G      D             G         F           
You wanna be set apart? Burn all of your art repair the wasteful part
Am   Em          Am G D
I'm a vampire in a forest fire
G               F        Em          C
Hey! we all gotta keep warm
G               F        Em          C
Hey! we all gotta keep warm
G         F            Am       G     F
driving towards the storm

C                         Em
Your father was a pervert
Am   G               D
Face down in the dirt
G                   F         C
He taught you how to hurt
Am Em    Am G D        G               F              Em     C
My father was a miner who lived in the suburbs
G               F             Em        C
Let's live in the suburbs
G            F                    Am        G              F
If I let where I'm from burn I can never return!

C                                    Am Em   G   D
My brother reads you and me his new poetry
G      F                C    
How embarassing
        Am   Em    G      D      
Your sister pours the gasoline
G  F           Em     C
I'll fix your meals
G  F           Em     C
I'll fix your meals
G      F               Am     G   F
while your burns heal!

Interlude:  C  Dm  Em  Am  G  F

C                               Dm
Find a house you don't have to rebuild
Em                                                 Am          G                           F
Stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail my father never meant to leave me this
C
Let this love last
Dm
I drive too fast
Em
Said I'd return if I'd ever cared
Am                        G                          F
But there's no interstate I find to take me there

If anyone can get what the song means to me then I love you and please call me.

Especially the interlude part? i think i can break down and cry everytime i listen to it. i think
i've heard it a total of twenty times since i first listened to it and it still gets me. I'm just so immersed in AF's
kind of intense, beautiful haunting music which is so...REAL - all the talk about loneliness and suburbia?
It's as if it reaches down into my soul to wrench out whatever disturbing things are floating around there.  Some people don't get it but I SO GET IT. and i get it so much
I want to say it out loud from the tops of the buildings and wherever corny place i can think of. because i so get it.
So there ive laid out my weird self for the world to see.  i know its a dark post but im in a dark place right now.
So be it.

I love arcade fire.

And ive exceeded my 10pm deadline but whatever its not the end of the world or anything.

And now that I've started i want to keep going.

I know people say they can't stand staying here after being away for so long.  but i feel like im the only one
that has that feeling magnified by a million.  maybe im just so self-centred like that. but im so depressed here.
the words "get me out of here" are so inefficient it makes me laugh.

the lyrics:
"i drive too fast,
said id return if id ever cared
but there's no interstate I find to take me there"

so much more appropriate.

thanks for staying tuned. i love you, people.