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Artist: Arcade Fire
Canonical path: /the-arcade-fire/suburban-war
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Suburban War
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Suburban War
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Let's go for a drive
And see the town tonight
There's nothing to do
But I don't mind when I'm with you
This town's so strange
They built it to change
And while we're sleeping all the streets get rearranged
And my old friends
They were so different then
Before your war
Against the suburbs began
Before it began
You know the music divides us into tribes
You grew your hair, so I grew mine
You said the past won't rest
Until we jump the fence and leave it behind
And my old friends
I can't remember when
You cut your hair
And I never saw you again
Now the cities we live in
Could be distant stars
But I search for you
In every passing car
The nights are warm
Yeah, the nights are warm
I've been living in the shadows of your song
Living in the shadows of your, song
In the suburbs I
I learned to drive
And you told me we would never survive
So grab your mother's keys we leave tonight
But you started a war
That you can't win
They keeping erasing all the streets we grew up in
Now the music divides
Us into tribes
You choose your side, I'll choose my side
All my old friends
They don't know me now
All my old friends
Are staring through me now
All my old friends
They don't know me now
All my old friends
They don't know me now
All my old friends wait
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