okay so i am pretty tired at the moment and the only thing that is currently on my mind is my own personal concerns, i'll respond to this stuff within the next few days but jesus christ i am tired
i'm glad you like all the music, but right now what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna aimlessly rant (maybe briefly) about why tunnels is probably the most beautiful thing i have ever heard
first of all, arcade fire recently did a live concert on youtube and they did a live version of the song. it is one of the single most amazing things that i have ever seen ever ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0DpBOYzXcQ
a few things you should pay attention to when you watch that: yes, win butler (main guy) is pretty ugly, and will butler (on tambourine) is having a transcendently good time, it is like that dude has transcended fun and is just kind of on a whole other level
but anyway i brought this song up last winter saying that it totally makes me cry and really it still does at least 30% of the time i mean by the time you get to
"you change all the lead
sleeping in my head
to gold
as the day grows dim
i hear you sing a golden hymn
the song i've been trying to sing"
it i just absolutely isn't even fair, especially after they tell a story about a suburban neighborhood being covered in snow and then have a resilient loving couple tunnel through to each other to just sort of live by themselves, i mean i personally think that's probably the most beautiful thing of all time, then it goes into those piano flourishes that it has and i am just basically completely lightheaded whenever that happens
by the way when i say that it makes me cry i don't mean boo-hooing i just mean that my eyes well up, i mean this isn't toy story 3 type stuff
i am just beginning to realize that this message seems fairly WEIRD but yeah whatever, i still have an hour before shitty american government shit class
because i can, these are the lyrics
"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
meet me in the middle
the middle of the 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
sleeping in my head
as the day grows dim
i hear you sing a golden hymn
and then
we tried to name our babies
but we forgot all the names that
the names we used to know
but sometimes
we remember bedrooms
and our parents' bedrooms
and the bedrooms of our friends
then we think of our parents
well what the hell ever happened to them
you change all the lead
sleeping in my head
to gold
as the day grows dim
i hear you sing a golden hymn
the song i've been trying to sing
purify the colors
purify my mind
purify the colors
purify my mind
spread the ashes of the colors
around this heart of mine"
i dunno it's just kind of like every good feeling that i have ever felt shoved into a five minute song
whenever people say "okay joey you know something about music what is a band that i should listen to" i will say "arcade fire" because the fact that more people don't know about them is pretty weird, i mean they just sold out two shows at madison square garden and their album went number one
also they're this orchestral rock outfit that's all about love and brotherhood but not in a hippy way, i mean these songs are ludicrously sincere, just look at those lyrics, but i think the fact that they manage to do that without making themselves look like cornballs is one of the most magical things ever
sorry to go on like this but i've just been listening to this song so much lately and i hope it'll always be my favorite