3:51
The Suburbs, 2010
Written by Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Jeremy Gara, Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne and Tim Kingsbury
This strikes me as a song of despair and hopelessness. A wild wind blows and tears down the wires. Can't inspire anyone. "Well, I know it's heavy, I know it ain't light / But how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight?" Too hip to help, maybe? Too cool to get involved? Driving endlessly around. Seems more in tune with the vast prairies of middle America, the badlands, than the suburbs.