Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait (Official Lyric Video)

[@andrea_myers]

I'm almost 50. This song takes me back to my pen-palling days of my late teens and 20s - the 80s and 90s. I had around 30+ at one time. Spent a lot if time waiting on letters from favorite pen-pals, one guy in particular that I had fallen in love with - and he made me wait the longest time between letters. Back then it could be 2 - 3 months. Finally just never heard from him again. The few favorite pen-pals I had who were into the same music as I was, we'd copy our new music for each other and include the tapes with our packages, sometimes would send along Xeroxed copies of articles from music magazines. Gradually they disappeared or friended me on Facebook and we messaged instead til that faded out, too. Good times. I miss them.

[@zealotmarux73]

Thanks for sharing your story of the pre-digital era. Back then letter writing was the cheapest way to stay in touch with family & friends in comparison to long distance telephone calls &/or telegrams.

[@martinharrison1504]

Yes the good old pen-pal days. We used to wait indeed, but there was a magic in that waiting, and that's gone forever now in the age of facebook instagram or whatever. Times change. I expect in another 30 or 40 years something will have replaced the social-media sites as we know them now and people will look back on the good old days of the 2020's..

[@jacquedaw]

Yeah just saying this earlier, I miss the days of letter writing, we used to wait, time to reflect, now with social media it is all so immediate, no time to reflect, process or go deep.

[@joshualucas7409]

You're an amazing woman

[@LeroOfTheKodiak]

I'm 31. I listened to this freshman year of college back in 2011. What a trip these past 10 years have been. Hope all is well, brother.

[@christinak5452]

I spent so much of my youth waiting for something to happen, for something to change... Wishing my life away. Hoping and waiting.

[@pras9258]

I love you too 😢

[@chadevantrimm3311]

Uploaded 3 days before Christmas 2020. Perhaps its meaning is to impose something otherworldly upon us? We cannot control the world. It will not simply give us what we desire, or need. We can, however, write a letter to our true love, and sign our name. Wait for a response, as we walk through the pain. Merry Christmas, Christina!

[@Annapaz25]

@@chadevantrimm3311 I think Arcade Fire has been trying to help us change our hearts so that the world can change too. That's what I believe.

[@joeytavez7055]

The whispers of divine aspirations are subtle, if you are distracted, you may miss them..

[@FLeon-km2ky]

same, it is all a waste of time, instead waiting for foolish dream go out there and make them into a reality, it's scary, daunting and difficult, but honestly it's true when they it's better to try and fail than to never try all. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[@derekdudek925]

This bands' work gets more relevant as time goes

[@lindasture9543]

Favorite song from the album.

[@aceventurablaze]

Definitely..

[@DrQuiza]

Closely followed by Ready To Start.

[@dougan8tr]

Same

[@SeanFrayne]

Agree. Speaking of waiting; I can't wait for their new album to come out this year. Also, if any of you guys have time and like this sort of stuff maybe have a listen to my new one and let me know what you think

[@vincentdufosse7107]

Idem

[@Agonizeddeadrose]

I'm 30 years old now. And when I met this band. It was through a television screen in my family seating area and I was watching Arcae Fire 9 years old and dancing 💃 😅and my whole family was watching and enjoying. That's why I love Arcade Fire 🔥 they always had a beat that makes you wanna feel free, dance, and smile in hopes of better days. Their music embodies everything special. And I love them for that. If I can finish this off, I will say anyone who truly loves Arcade Fire will have a special view and life❤🎉

[@11Itchyknuckles]

“We used to wait for it. And now we’re screaming sing the chorus again.” An apt description of modern life.

[@diamondp.9688]

I was like 10 yo, now I'm 50, when I started to exchange letters with a kid from DDR (I was living in the USSR back then). A funny thing is that I almost didn't understand what he was writing and used a dictionary trying to get at least something ) I found his address in a local magazine for kids, of course there were penpals only from "socailist" countries. 12 years later I corresponded with a guy from Canada, we both listened same kind of music and were fans of the same bands and he sent me bunches of audio cassettes occasionally. It felt like a little celebration everytime a letter from them came after like a month or two of waiting. Anyway, great song which touches personal feelings and stir memories. Greetings from Ukraine.

[@infostudy101]

Nice story. Hope you are well and still listening to good music!

[@zdenekmeisner]

now i am 75, last month i sent a printer to school in Bucha and 120 headlamps to men in the field, actually i send a thousand isotermic covers toman in the field. Arcadia is my favorite ten years. Greetings, greetings from Prague

[@diamondp.9688]

@@zdenekmeisner Thanks!

[@4thand133]

If you listen to several of the songs on The Suburbs (this one, Modern Man, Deep Blue), they share a theme of how technology is changing us and making us lose things that are important. Of course it's only gotten worse since this was released in 2010, they were ahead of their time.

[@creativecredence850]

It's a common theme across all of their albums, how this age of connectivity has us more isolated than ever before.

[@donald984]

I think the album in general is how the world is changing around us

[@alvin8431]

this album was great, but I don't think they were ahead of their time, they were just awake

[@lnanimateCarbonRod]

Arcade Fire is one of my favourite bands, and always have amazing lyrics, but talking about the advent of technology was not ahead of their time, it had already been happening in popular culture since the 90s.

[@alvin8431]

@@lnanimateCarbonRod exactly! Nice said

[@adamc.sieracki4145]

But what's stranger still, Is how something so small can keep you alive. 💙

[@aigul5881]

These lyrics are ❤

[@Edo88Italy]

Remember when we were waiting for the premiere of this song's interactive video and ended up crying over seeing our own homes appear on the screen? Good times...

[@puzzlr7674]

I was just a child when I found that interactive music video. I had no idea who Arcade Fire was, or that there was music outside of what I heard on the radio. 8 years later I found this song again, and it felt so good.

[@TreavorUnion]

www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

[@Annapaz25]

I remember that. Waiting for news and for the record to come out. After Neon Bible. The Suburbs was incredible. The images, the apocalyptic scenes. Warning us all, I take it.

[@jmagination228]

yes. very cool. this song gets more powerful every passing year too.

[@obtorgecirb2100]

😢

[@matthewsnyder674]

the junction in life when you go from always looking forward to always looking back

[@RHEAHAYES-d6q]

Perfect Summary Of Our Much Younger Years Versus Older Years. Cheers 🎵

[@mydeformeddog9139]

This is such a beautiful song

[@TheLiveSquare]

The lyrical aspect of their personal experiences going into the songwriting flow is just sheer brilliance. The chorus doesn’t kick in until the middle of the song, and then when it does you’re hooked and you know you aren’t recovering from it. Finally it builds to the bridge for the outro of ‘and now they’re screaming - sing the chorus again’. And then “wait for it”, but it never arrives. Exactly how we used to wait for it. Breakdown-worthy. Perhaps the most brilliant packaging of nostalgia in under 5 mins.

[@AllisterCaine]

I haven't much of a clue of music theory, but this sounds like a perfect metamorphosis of everything that made rock music great in the past. It sounds so distilled... This song gets me every time, no matter the mood.

[@Liv-or5ci]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s considered this one for the ages since I first heard it in a past life idk how many years ago. I was such a different person then and thought of this song so differently and I feel like as I age it’s only gotten more important and retained it’s same musical magic as the first time I heard it. It leaves me breathless

[@11Itchyknuckles]

I love how the song makes you wait a full 23 seconds (of escalating instrumental interlude) before the chorus begins with crashing drums…brilliant. 1:49

[@anthonyrocha4360]

There’s something really special about this song. I rediscovered this song again after not listening to it for a while. Now I constantly listen to it so I never forget about it. The way he sings “like a patient on a table…” gets me every time for some reason.

[@geraintgriffiths5711]

The nostalgia of this piece of epicness causes my eyes to water ..2010 was something I'll miss and never forget

[@miahconnell23]

Funny how memory & nostalgia work-- in 2010, I got surprise divorced after 14 years of devoted couple-hood [9 of that officially married]. So I took the first job offered to me “far away.” Wound up in Taiwan, but NOT beautiful & progressive Taipei. The job was in an industrial dystopia that would’ve been called a village if it’d still had any green. Nobody could speak my language-which I’m fine with NOW-but back then, being alone was new. I knew there’d be no wife, but in America I used to have friends at the pub for an after-work drink or two. So yah I was suddenly single, but unexpectedly ALONE on top of that: No pub, and no casual pub-friends in that industrial part of Puxín. In one of very few emails from the ex in America, she wrote me “this album is very you: it’s all the stuff you’ve always talked about.” I listened with decent earphones over and over and over. Yah: I dislike suburban sprawl, and I miss my “back-in-the-day” friends with an uncommon seriousness. True. I wasn’t used to aloneness at that time, and I didn’t ask for it. (I thought I was gonna be in international Taipei City.) While describing this, it sounds hard. 14 years later, I actually have nostalgia for that time and place: I was alone, yes: true. But I was SAFE. And I was still a young man. Sure there were dead street-dogs and bright blue chemicals in the canals. And the concrete factory spewed particulate pollution onto EVERYTHING. And I used the balcony-curtains as bedding for a couple weeks before I bought a comforter in Taipei. But my apartment was very cheap, and a kind Thailand immigrant, who was also alone, fed me from his combination bedroom / restaurant. I was safe from fear of not making rent. I was safe from hunger. Safe from crime. Safe from any possibly wrong romance. It was never cold. I look back in time and think about riding the inter-city train. Being a few hours away, Taipei was reachable on most weekends, and there I made some pub friends and visited a good man: an old family friend. I look back and think: “it wasn’t so bad. I had audiobooks, i had my job, and I was safe.” Memory & nostalgia: how peculiar they work…

[@comet6comet]

This reminds me of the letters I used to get while away at university. Back in the day when long distance calls were too expensive. I still have these ❤

[@LiveContractInc]

I’ve heard of Arcade fire like ten years ago, and I didn’t know much of his music but I had like one song The Suburbs, but today I research more music from them and I couldn’t believe how much music I enjoy made by them. Arcade Fire, you guys got good music.

[@jbliv831]

We used to sit in silence and wait. I miss not having this device. It was better.

[@TheExtremeBalor]

“Now our lives are changing fast” Me lleva de regreso a ese camino hacia Mexicali. Qué gran rola.

[@iridianhernandez6033]

Mexicali rules. 🌵☀️

[@dartless]

Still Moving Through The Pain.

[@johnbennett2941]

Each and every song by the arcade fire up until this album anyway,.. instantaneously teleports me to age twelve, the last spring summer fall and winter I lived without a relevant worry.... or worse yet, into the future when I'll be alone, and unable to share anything with anyone I loved. Arcade Fire,.. that's how music is supposed to be made. I'm at your mercy when I hear you. ❤

[@wabisabi3619]

I used to listen to this on repeat when I would walk to my girlfriend’s house. 15 years later, she’s my wife and we have kids.

[@petajames4292]

Love this song so much. The good thing about only recently discovering this amazing band is the fact that I have loads and loads of their music to listen to which, most of, is new to me! There is a God👍 xx

[@CheefChaos]

Check out 'Headlights Look Like Diamonds'

[@petajames4292]

@@CheefChaos thanks....I will x

[@786665085]

What this song says to me is that from when your very young till the present as time goes along each phase start changing your perception based on how you want to feel at that moment

[@jstonehoh]

My fave AF song. Makes me tear up every time, I dunno why lol ✌🏻❤️🇨🇦🤪

[@dougler500]

I know whyy

[@amyshelton59]

I’m thankful for these artists! I admire the intention, they are fulfilling their destiny, what a wonderful connection that can be established

[@alexanderclaylavin]

there's still a beating heart in the middle of this world

[@jaramoneja]

this is, undoubtedly, their best song

[@sambt123]

Hell no, go listen to the whole album of funeral, every song on that album is better than this one

[@jaramoneja]

@@sambt123 no

[@sambt123]

@@jaramoneja and also this is probably not even top 3 on the suburbs

[@jairaven8447]

SaucyySam _ it’s my 2nd favourite song after suburbs. After this is ready to start then rococo

[@captain_eclectic]

Always a light in the darkness.

[@magicalesquilax7232]

Damn, I love this song.

[@dawndahlia]

Such a beautiful song, I remember the Google-Maps music video that assisted the song, I used to play it on repeat, if fascinated me as a child

[@thescrappay]

Was this the song on their website where you could plug in your childhood home address and it would take you on a google earth journey from where you were at the moment you hit play back to your old house?? A friend showed me that when this album first came out, broke my heart!

[@aigul5881]

Yes. It was in 2010

[@mortieherrera9876]

This song is so nostalgic to me. When it first came out, I used to walk to school every morning and listened to this song everyday. Back then, I used to have a girlfriend and whenever I listened to this song, I pictured us both planning our life away from our homophobic parents. That was such long time ago now... I don't know what became of her or her life. I wish her well and hope that her situation got better. Its nostalgic to me now because my life looked so different all those years ago. I was such a different person.

[@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn]

Send her a message if you can. Always write!

[@martinharrison1504]

That's very poetic and intriguing! You have a good attitude too. So are you a different person in a good way would you say now?

[@mortieherrera9876]

@@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn I would but things ended very complicated and bad. Her parents blame me for everything that went wrong and a small part of me thinks she might blame me too.

[@mortieherrera9876]

@@martinharrison1504 I would say I'm much more mature than I was. Looking back, I wish I would've done and said things differently. Maybe we could've had that "happily ever after" if I would have handled things differently. She suffered from an eating disorder (one that I noticed way too late) and I was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder.. I thought we were just normal teens in love.

[@Vickvineager]

@@mortieherrera9876 that’s all in the past. He’s right. Write her a letter. I did just that to my high school sweetheart who I haven’t heard from in 15 years. I don’t know anything about her anymore. But the simple fact I wrote to her, wishing her the best for her & whomever will fill a void you didn’t know existed.

[@Aurellio1984]

Beautiful song!

[@jimschlat]

i wish the arcade fire was still around

[@aigul5881]

Why? They are still touring and having live concerts

[@jimschlat]

really?

[@josieperrusi3336]

Love this song 🖤

[@andykolb6502]

Very good Taste !

[@residentjua199]

Great Music. Gran Rock Alternativo.

[@arthurschnabel2916]

You guys are on my BUCKET LIST FOR SURE!!!! 👍😘😘😘😘❤❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸🎹🎹🎹🎶🎶🎶

[@Dammm2503]

Archade Fire Toronto 2017 Air Canada Center Infinite Contact tour Air, one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

[@ilianasanchez2891]

Los amo! No me canso de escucharlos, uno de mis grupos favoritos. Desde Veracruz-, México.

[@Liv-or5ci]

Love that someone in Mexico has heard of this amazing song 😍

[@kimberlysanchez5321]

Hey fellow Sanchez I love them too 🙌🏾sending love and peace vibes

[@assimfalouzaratrusta3405]

Can't wait for the new album ♥️♥️♥️

[@fabiolabeatrizmezapaez9136]

Canción de canciones demasiado hermosa y profunda Como hacen falta Arcade Fire 💓💓💓

[@cinedetorrente9011]

2022...wish I could go back...."still moving through the pain"

[@andykolb6502]

This Song is a 100/10

[@useR97siu]

AF Forever

[@LucasItaloRibeiro]

Sonzeira boa demais! 🇧🇷

[@assimfalouzaratrusta3405]

Dude,I luv this song.

[@bradlouttit5004]

Can we keep waiting for it, please? 🙏💌

[@August_sea]

Incredible song

[@reemarin]

❤️ many, many years this letter marked my life 😍🥰🔥

[@massilsadeg3648]

Merci Lou ❤🔥🥦

[@mirzatayibnapis1722]

I love the ending part

[@chxvx4470]

Ma chanson préférée !

[@Rojermans]

We use to wait, wait for it

[@Receptor1]

I didn't realize that she wouldn't wait for me. I dragged my heels. I took my time. Now she's gone. It's incredible. I never dreamed of this ever happening. It wasn't possible. Now my worst nightmare a reality.

[@rbz7]

esta canción es tan nostalgica y deprimente a la vez... sobre todo esta parte 4:13

[@growingislife2148]

I remember when this came out you could type your childhood adress on the website and it would play a customized music video of the song using shots from google street view of the neighborhood.

[@jejmoss11]

Great new song 10 years ago.

[@alicjakozowska1535]

love it

[@acro7]

we used to wait.

[@shinra1979]

Gracias. Thanks.

[@joto-]

a maior!

[@frontend_ko]

도대체 몇년전 노래야, 추억이다 20대 초반에 들었던것 같은데, 이제 30이네

[@heyblenda]

I know it's an old song but wow the lyrics feels so 2020's pandemic

[@jakubdolezal665]

How though, i don't see the connection.

[@cadredeux1047]

jakub dolezal Listen to the song the “suburban war” then listen to the whole album. Very prophetic.

[@jakubdolezal665]

@@cadredeux1047 i know the album very well and i'm a fan of Arcade Fire. But the album obviously isn't about pandemics and i just don't like how people make everyrhing about 2020 now even if it isn't about it. Thats like when people say the simpsons predicted the future :)

[@cadredeux1047]

jakub dolezal It’s not about the pandemic specifically but about how the country has been become totally divided between warring tribes. There no longer is a middle ground. You have to pick a side. The pandemic rather than uniting people dived us further . The album looks back at past nostalgically when we were united. The sad part many have been become more isolated because of politics than from the pandemic.

[@amanites24]

Anyone still resonating with this in 2020? Give it a like! This is classic s#*t

[@dunyahm]

I Love this so much 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@anthonyarliss2394]

I use to sleep at night Before the flashing lights fell deep in my brain

[@vincenthopkins4389]

When this guy forgets about being spokesman for the middle class and pursues the past of his own legacy that is built on the foundation of earnest desperation of the last great rock n roll periods where the crossover of electronic textures and dance music and every other nuance but the substance that once defined the Beatles and the Stones that elusive moment that is dictated by chance and held hostage by language and the meaning a product of the exclusion of the exiled then the momentary meaning and its lack has the freedom of a slow ozu film in the Tokyo fading light into the overwhelming space of a nature that waits to engulf us

[@brianwalker2201]

This band are dear to me.

[@laspeorescancionesdelmundo4207]

Now our lives are changing fast

[@Raphael-2]

Please put back the video of "We Exist". I love this video so much! And I can't find it!

[@craigramsay53]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/noO7lJJjmMRsjsU

[@Raphael-2]

@@craigramsay53 Oh thanks. But it says "Unavailable". I could watch it before but now it's blocked apparently. They need to unblock it.

[@craigramsay53]

@@Raphael-2 Perhaps it's set for North America only and you're elsewhere? Sorry. Best of luck finding it eventually.

[@JorgetheLuchadore]

@@Raphael-2 get yourself a vpn and set it to a north american server

[@arthurschnabel2916]

You have to hit Cincinnati!!!

[@RivaGabri27]

❤️❤️❤️

[@filipebarbosadelima9004]

Muito bom!

[@cabocadeconcreto]

tao atual...

[@heartgram87]

I love this song!!!!!

[@thebaleons]

Insomnio ameno con esta rolita nice

[@vicentemorales2533]

I used to write letters I used to sign my name🎵🎵

[@Evercreeper]

Should have gone searching, I never knew nobody was looking for me. I figured they would care the same. All of them. Nobody did.

[@macdreezy]

Lovely song. 2024

[@fabriciocarlos7572]

Brasil 🌻

[@ericphilen3433]

USA

[@anchaxhermawan6576]

Please come to Indonesia guys!

[@DanteJADiazP]

nice, thanks

[@miguelagawin]

Current films and/or cinema suffer in this regard.

[@giogregorio1397]

I fucking love this song ❤️🥺

[@ericphilen3433]

It’s so good

[@juliomejia5284]

i would like to play the keyboard for this song

[@silverskies6459]

We Used To Wait For This Lyric Video...

[@top.6180]

Ok good

[@femkeneleflo]

❤️

[@trucker-zv4nh]

what year did this come out ? please 🙏

[@wOlf4063]

2010

[@Koshirozation]

♥️

[@davidryan7386]

Still do

[@shalupashalla9030]

What's thE band about this is new music to understand

[@abigalesmith8970]

♥️🙂🌌

[@pamelagiddings6913]

This is my salute to my surrogate grandma

[@sharimetuestatenorio3851]

😍😎😍😎😍😎

[@anon89461]

triste pra caramba

[@TempestadFilms]

qué tema tan hijueputa

[@UxR69]

**toca el piano épicamente**

[@vicktxstz2259]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷