Pisblom

Hieronder kon je de eerste verse nummers van het nieuwe Arcade Fire-album The Suburbs al beluisteren.

Misschien trad er bij AF intussen een angstreactie in werking. Ze denken dat snakkende fans het wachten niet meer kunnen volhouden tot 2 augustus. Om gekke dingen te voorkomen, gooien ze twee extra nummers online. Of misschien speelt er een opportunistische overweging en een drang om nog wat buzz te maken. Wie geeft er om motieven wanneer het resultaat stukken beter klinkt dan The Suburbs en The Month of May.
De overwaaiende Soundclouds heb ik daarom in de namiddag al binnengehaald met een straffe vislijn. Ik parkeer de schitterende geluidswolken hier maar al te graag op stal.

May I present:

The End

We Used to Wait volgens BBC-presentator Zane Lowe wordt dit de eerste officiële UK-single.

I used to write. I used to write letters. I used to sign my name.
I used to sleep at night. Before the flashing lights of a … in the brain
But by the time we met. By the time we met, the times had all changed

So I never wrote a letter. I never took my true heart. I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out. I was lost standing in the wilderness down, down

Now a lot’s changing fast, now a lot’s changing fast.
Hope that something pure can last. Hope that something pure could last.

It may seem strange. How we used to wait for letters to arrive.
But what strange is still, is how something so small can keep you alive.

We used to wait. We used to wait staunch just walking around.
We used to wait. All this waisted lives, in the wilderness down, down.

Ooh we used to wait. Ooh we used to wait. Ooh we used to wait.
Sometimes they never came. (Ooh we used to wait). Sometimes they never came.
We’re still moving through the game.

I’m gonna write a letter to my true love. I’m gonna sign my name.
Like a … on a table. I wanna walk again, gonna move to the pain.

Now a lot’s changing fast, now a lot’s changing fast.
Hope that something pure can last. Hope that something pure can last.

Ooh we used to wait. Ooh we used to wait. Ooh we used to wait.
Sometimes they never came. (Ooh we used to wait). Sometimes they never came.
We’re still moving through the game. We used to wait. We used to wait. We used to wait.

We used to wait for it. We used to wait for it. Now we’ll scream and sing the chorus again.
We used to wait for it. We used to wait for it.
I used to wait for it. I used to wait for it. And I will scream and sing the chorus again.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it.