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No Cars Go ♦ Arcade Fire
For me it was when I was about seventeen years old, a time on the cusp between childhood and manhood, when I had it. I suspect that I, like most, only realized that I had it once it was gone. It, was for me, the left over still not dead and buried wonder and awe struck way at looking at the world of a child combined with the potential to leave a mark on the world that comes with being an adult.
On Neon Bible, Arcade Fire’s brilliant follow up to Funeral, Win Butler sings “I don’t want to fight in a holy war, I don’t want the salesman knocking at my door, I don’t want to live in American no more.”
Teenage rebellion sprinkled with the wisdom of an adult.
For those of us living in America, suffering from Lady Macbeth syndrome desperately trying to wash our hands of blood- out out damn spot- the lyrics are a punch to the gut.
And then comes the track No Cars Go to save the day. Promising to take us to a place where no planes go. Where no ships go.
Even Lady Macbeth knows that no matter what crimes we commit under the cover of night- a time must come to go to bed.
“What’s done cannot be undone”, Lady M councils her husband after they killed the King, holding onto her sanity by a thread, “To bed, to bed, to bed.”
And Arcade Fire takes us, in a rollicking, defiant building swirl of drums and xylophone, and french horn and hurdy gurdy out the escape hatch- and flying! An out of body experience between the moment of sleep and waking where we are all invited- to the a remote renovated church in Quebec, a magical place where we are given back that moment in time when we were 17 and anything was possible. A moment between the click of the light and the start of the dream.
-Davis Fleetwood (e: NoCureForThatProductions {at} gmail {dot} com )
NO CARS GO ♦ LIVE @ GLASTONBURY/ 2007
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