Arcade Fire - Speaking In Tongues (Lyrics)

Arcade Fire - Speaking Tongues
From The Suburbs Deluxe Edition, Arcade Fire - Speaking In Tongues. Premiered May 23rd on Zane Lowe's Radio Show.

[@TheInternetIsDeadToMe]

This is a classic song. The words, the Erie bass and guitar. It has a kind of Twin Peaks intro/Joy Division vibe to it. Can't stop listening.

[@ricapeix17]

The best band band ever, they can't do bad music!!!And the lyrics are fantastic!

[@arislost]

the first quote is from Charles Baudelaire's poem L'ennui: Hypocrite lecteur,-mon semblable,-mon frère!

[@mauriceandrews6242]

What a great tune, enough said

[@LyricalWax]

just got the deluxe edition. this and culture war are brilliant.

[@Brutusness]

Arcade Fire, featuring the vocalist from the Talking Heads. HOLY AWESOME SOCKS..

[@IlianaLeoni]

Agreed, Montreal is in Quebec and Quebec is a province in Canada. And if every French Canadian did not want to be part of the country, one of the referendums on this issue would have resolved this issue. C'est la vie.

[@smirnesca]

i've listened to this song for the first time on the radio some months ago..I've immediately taken a note of the lyrics just to search them on youtube...and then discover the title of the song...it's beautiful...now they've played another time on VR...but it's just the second time I listened to this song on the radio....beautiful..

[@MrSoleil]

by far the best band in the world

[@erinrawrwolf]

so i heard of arcade fire and decided to finally look up their music today, ... fuuuuuck i think i just found my new favourite band of all time. and this here is my favourite song. sorry taylor swift, you've been knocked down to #2.

[@PJvee]

This song is as great as the group!! Just fabulous

[@pablochiacchio8935]

Alta banda loco !!! Geniales!!!

[@69skydiamond]

I love this band. The best thing ive heard for a very long long time.

[@rdan721]

I've listened to 5 seconds so far and I love it.

[@dobster58]

they just get better all the time - fantastic track

[@gretahille3880]

Favorite song ;)

[@littleowlivia]

@Patcheno i wish i could thumbs up this more than once. thanks for being awesome

[@xFifitrixibellx]

It's so different from their other stuff but still has that amazing Arcade Fire sound, i love it!

[@wbsMullet]

This could have been released thirty years ago. That's a good thing by the way.

[@sharonmtvharrison]

Right on

[@fr0zenroses]

FAVORITE. SONG. EVER.

[@VampireMiw]

XD the picture at 1:35

[@99967496]

PERFECT!

[@esurell]

@TheSnooch123 Very good analysis Snooch. I have been on a 1 year binge of Arcade Fire and have been absolutely enamored by this band and their concepts. I agree with you in that it is not an attack much like Neon Bible was not an attack on Christianity, but more of a perspective on religion that is worth considering. Win is definitely on record of saying he's had a profound interest in religion and culture. The concept that our technological advancement has stripped us of our humanity is tru

[@willzer808]

It's not a competition. And they can't be compared. This is a great band right here, for me and for many. And they are in the middle of their age. So drawing comparisons and deciding on competitive undertones is pretty much a useless pursuit. They are under-rated in my opinion

[@BRAVENEWORDERFILMS]

Radiohead edges them slightly for me personally.

[@IlianaLeoni]

It's Canada Day and AF are one of the reasons to be proud of our country and culture. If you don't like them, don't listen or comment. HAPPY CANADA DAY!

[@lopestjoao]

youtube should have the repeat button!!! :)

[@ofneirax]

thumbs up!! for this freaking good song!!

[@83NJL]

Amazing. The icing on the cake....David Bryne :-)

[@MrZics]

This song makes me even more excited for their next album

[@Simplemente_D]

This song makes me think.

[@arpecoman]

think this is a very chilled out song!!!!!!!

[@Traumdertod]

Amen to that!

[@MrBurningWhale]

Arcade Fire + David Byrne = Double Awesome

[@pablocarmesi]

Amo esta canción!

[@VietnameseAmericanFamily]

ahhhhhhh speaking in tongues!

[@Volturism]

@corncornrocks Concerning the pressure set by their flawless discography, and certainly by that of NB (by some called the best runner-up album of the 2000s), forced them to write a record which would simply have to do, as 4 years had passed and expectations just kept growing. While some songs on The Suburbs are good, it’s as if broken in 16 pieces, glued together by the few songs that are actually good music. It’s an album that wouldn’t have been enough in 2007, but in this situation, had to be.

[@rosalbina188]

great song! placebo did a song with the same name (in the last album, battle for the sun) and i love them both! quite a strange coincidence...

[@AlvinHDavernport]

Thanks for the info, bud.

[@artifexsui]

Come out your head, and into my world NOW

[@wrighty07]

I keep expecting to hear "She don't love me like you." Can't believe there is no credit for the magic numbers in this.

[@TomPatCat]

I uploaded a live version of this from Hyde Park! Love this song.

[@albymilan]

I love this song but I don't know why. It's charming.

[@yarin66]

comment at the end...nicely said

[@NextRandomIllusion]

i love them!!! :')

[@luthehappy7]

@museandmanicsfan I liked Wasted Hours and Empty Room when I listened to them for the first time. LOVE Month of May, I don't know why though. So weird, one band, so many different opinions. But one thing we can all agree on: Arcade Fire's awesome and we all love that band.

[@gothgod]

@Volturism You left out my favorite "City With No Children " a wonderful tune-Arcade Fire great stuff- I like to play City With No Children looping back to back with Nick Cave's poignant "O'Children " after that its Modern Man played next to Nick Cave's Abattoir Blues. and so it goes - GORD #gordspoetryfactory

[@yiyithaw]

esta super genial esta rola ♥_♥

[@nan9550daft]

@Babydolleri The coldplay singer..said that arcade fire is the best band of all time...

[@morgantown1]

@Patcheno One of the best replies ever!

[@nZombi23]

@MrSoleil I wish I could find people in my real life who thinks this band is the best like you do.

[@kamalazraai2011]

this song reminds me of the magic numbers

[@Simplemente_D]

i feel relax. :D

[@GUTY1968]

joya!!!!!!papá

[@GuillermoBuenocolmex]

@MrSoleil And what about Interpol? and what about queens of the Stone Age? And what about The Mars Volta? There are a lot of "best band of the world" but i must admit arcade fire is one of those.

[@kaisamsa]

@NeverSaidYes Half Light 2 is the only song i really dont like in The Suburbs, the other ones fit perfectly. But hey, the best song overall is Suburban War. Im surprised it didnt make your list!

[@wybsterman]

ace!!!!!!!

[@audrey60hepburn]

@Kenna6746 I'm sorry but they're from Quebec (Montreal) not Canada... there is not one french-canadian person in Quebec that is proud to be canadian!

[@corncornrocks]

@Volturism I agree that Suburbs is their least well-done album, but what do you mean it was "face-saving"? I don't see anything that points to saving face.

[@Volturism]

@NeverSaidYes I would say that The Suburbs, Modern Man, Empty Room, Deep Blue and We Used to Wait are the really notable ones. The other songs are not bad, just dull and boring to different degrees. Which ones do you prefer?

[@MattK3222]

think the greatest band ever talk is a bit premature!!! I still love them though :)

[@sharonmtvharrison]

It's like we're speaking in tongues

[@willzer808]

don't be sorry, no need, you have the right to this opinion. I think they are the fucking best, however

[@TheSnooch123]

@esurell I completely agree, Win is thankfull of a religious background and it helped him form a world view he admits he no longer practices but its still something he cares about but he has no taste for the contradictive, conservative and sometimes often immoral takes on religion aswell as it's commercialisation such as preachers making money off 'private prayers', the very thing that inspired Neon Bible (money grabbing preachers and the church becoming a commercial enterprise)...

[@bobby58585]

Clever reference...

[@merp715]

True, in reality, they're a very conventional Indie Rock band with all the awesome elements of Post-punk and Baroque Pop, and the comparisons to the artsy types like Radiohead/Sigur Ros seem kinda, well, wrong... They are more like the Strokes' cool, Baroque cousins than those guys.

[@BBQPeanut]

@audrey60hepburn You mean 2 of the current 8 members are from Quebec. Being based in Montreal =/= from Quebec. Most members are from Texas or Ottawa. If you don't like it, get out of Canada.

[@lhrttz]

i think this is the sound that they should look for on their next LP. Step away from the springsteenian anthems for a while, and pursue a more expansive and experimental sound, much like the talking heads itself and the funeral years. Tracks like spraw 2 would be great too.

[@lunacindy83]

wow! its sad that with such a beautiful song, people put up such ugly comments. u all shouldnt even be aloud to call ur selves Arcade Fire fans with such hatred in u.

[@luthehappy7]

@museandmanicsfan For some reason I always skip Modern Man even though I don't think it's bad? and I agree about the end, the Suburbs at the end

[@o0linx0o]

Cuttooth :)

[@worldwarmickMiceal]

@phaisonth14 of all time you mean

[@kltzk]

why wasn't this on the regular album

[@o0linx0o]

Reminds me Cuttouth by Radiohead a bit.

[@ciclopropano]

can somebody explain to me what does it mean to speak in tongues? (I dont speak english as native language)

[@Titanicrox22]

@psychairportmaps yeah but there's nothing wrong with the talking heads.....

[@kltzk]

baudelaire reference no?

[@Volturism]

Don't see what's the deal with Arcade Fire anymore. Funeral was fantastic, Neon Bible amazing, but The Suburbs? Seriously, I thought it was hollow, face-saving and almost embarrasing in relative to the previous two. And songs like these, Baudelaire-references and David Byrne in all respect, only probate this opinion of mine.

[@adriandecleir]

@Interail2011 looks like 2 people do not speak in tongues

[@RobertKing00]

@Antiks72 hahahhaa

[@CheefChaos]

@nZombi23 They Will find you.

[@Christian-yh6yc]

:)

[@kltzk]

too bad this wasn't on the regular cd

[@michaeldoyle]

Stingy ninjas

[@OldSkoolWax]

lol Radiohead is take it or leave it? Dafuq kinda taste do you have?

[@Titanicrox22]

Justin Bieber also has a song called "speaking in tongues" *facepalm*

[@thomo1888]

Radiohead is accessible. lel

[@miguelconde8]

@Patcheno dude you went over board, with the n word,,,but otherwise touche...:/

[@davidkzoo]

LOL anyone who argues about music on KZbin is total tool shed.

[@TommyCol31]

hmmm, maybe its a grower?

[@TheSnooch123]

The lyrics are so subversive, speaking in tongues is a reference to preachers 'channeling christ' and hypocrite, reader, my double my brother is suggesting the idea of the hypocrisy in religion today but at the same time its not an attack on this its win merely stating he doesn't understand how this has happened or rather they are 'speaking in tongues'....

[@MILFCORE]

Wow, giving the thumbs up to a racist. Way to go, people....

[@DibbityDan]

Good song but I can see why they left it off the album, it's a bit weaker than most of the others on The Suburbs

[@SHANEIZOID]

your comment was ruined by being racist dude

[@jerste]

A weak parody.

[@willzer808]

whatever