Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire & Peter Gabriel
Arcade Fire
The song/album borrows its title from Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1921 sci-fi novel “We” and comes after it’s divided into two parts “I” and “WE”, with “I” channeling “the fear and loneliness of isolation”, and “WE” expressing “the joy and power of reconnection”.
A short text by Win for “WE”...
[Intro]
Prochaine station
[Verse 1]
I wanna get wild
I wanna get free
Would you want to get off this ride with me?
I wanna get down
Get down on one knee
Would you want to get off this ride with me?
[Verse 2]
I wanna give in
I wanna give out
Wanna give away everything in this house
I wanna get going
Before the fires burn out
You can give away everything in this house
[Verse 3]
I wanna give up
I wanna give down
Wanna give away everything in my hometown
Already know "I"
I wanna know "We"
Would you want to get off this ride with me?
[Outro]
When everything ends, can wе do it again?
When everything еnds, wanna do it again?
When everything ends, can we do it again?
When everything ends, can we do it again?
WE
WE was written by Régine Chassagne & Win Butler.
WE was produced by Nigel Godrich & Win Butler & Régine Chassagne.
Arcade Fire released WE on Fri May 06 2022.
Win Butler:
I think the journey of the record, the first half is: Imagine this character’s like, ‘Get me the F out of here, get me off this planet, get me out of my own skin, get me away from myself. I don’t want to be here.’ It’s anxiety and it’s depression and it’s heaviness, it’s the weight of t...