Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Lyrics

"They heard me singing and they told me to stop. Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock! Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small. Can we ever get away from the sprawl? Living in the sprawl. Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains and there's no end in sight. I need the darkness someone please cut the lights..." -- Arcade Fire.

Just one of those songs that when it comes on I have to crank it loud, sing along, and not give a f*ck what the guy in the next car staring at me thinks....

Yes, I agree it is beautiful. They wanted to venture into the way things were in their adolescence and encountered a change in society. A mix of joy and sadness.

Another hidden gem from Arcade Fire...

If you listen to most of the album this song is on those lyrics are easier to understand. This song and much of the album it's on are about desires to retain the past (nostalgia), the traumatic or pleasant recollections brought about by old and familiar landmarks, the strong emotions associated with memorable landmarks and with traveling to them or from them, the pronounced ambivalence some experienced people have about old landmarks and natural vegetation (e.g. the "nearest park" mentioned above) being maintained or supplanted by modern entities, today's younger generation of people's failure to acknowledge their inability to be involved in certain past eras chronologically and emotionally, and what is percieved by older generations as a de facto move toward eliminating that which older generations of people strongly identify.