“Arrow in the Wall” is a haunting warning for the times to come. Society is starting to decay, and everyone, no matter how well they are doing now, will be affected.
[Verse 1]
My heart runs on gasoline vapors
The thousand drums waking up the neighbors
But I can feel the fissures in the freeways
The rusted steel, deception in the handshakes
In the handshakes
[Chorus]
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
[Verse 2]
This machine was built to be broken
The strip mall teens were sniffing and swollen
And I could not run fast enough to flee them
There's more than one way to get your freedom
To get your freedom
[Chorus]
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
[Chorus]
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
An Arrow In the Wall was written by Benjamin Gibbard & Dave Depper.
An Arrow In the Wall was produced by John Congleton.
Death Cab for Cutie released An Arrow In the Wall on Wed Aug 16 2023.
Ben Gibbard:
‘An Arrow in the Wall’ is about the warning signs all around us in the 21st century that society-at-large is in decay. The arrow lodged in the wall might have missed this time, but it would be naive to assume the next one won’t also.
— via Rolling Stone