Broken Window
Arcade Fire

Deep in the past, far in the future time
Deep in the past, far in the future time
Just 'cause no one saw you, that don't mean it ain't a crime

They say they know me but they only know my name
They say they know me but they only know my name
They're through asking me questions, I ain't gonna learn to sing

If they want it they can take it, they don't need no reason why
If they want it they can take it, they don't need no reason why
The night they took you from me I saw the broken window and I cried

They bound my eyes and they bound my hands
They bound my eyes and they bound my hands
Where they're gonna take me now? No one understands

They say they know me but they only know my name
They say they know me but they only know my name
They're through asking me questions, I ain't gonna learn to sing

Lay their hands upon me now, it's midnight blue
Lay the hands upon me now, it's midnight blue
They didn't know me and they didn't know you, no, no

Now reduced to hide in the dark when they came for you

I gained the world but I lost your trust
I gained the world but I lost your trust
they throw their money at you, it ain't easy to adjust

Come out, and put your hands on your head
I said come out, and put your hands on your head
Come and join the rest of us, we are already dead

If they want it they can take it, they don't need no reason why
If they want it they can take it, they don't need no reason why
The night they took you from me I saw the broken window and I cried

Woe unto them if they touch a hair on your head
Woe unto them if they touch a hair on your head
You're gonna join the rest of us, we are already dead

They won the battle, but the war is through
They won the battle, but the war is through
They didn't know me and they didn't know you, no, no

Now reduced to knock in the dark when they came for you


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  (Antichrist Television Blues)   7 Kettles   Abraham's Daughter   Abraham\u2019s Daughter   Abraham's Daughter   Abrahamam's Daughter   Abrahams Daugther   Accidents   Afterlife   Alligator Mine   Antichrist Television Blues   Apocrypha   Asleep at the Wheel   Awful Sound   Awful Sound (Hey Eurydice)   Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)   Black Mirror   Black Wave / Bad Vibrations   Black Wave/Bad Vibrations   Black Wave\/Bad Vibrations   Blinded By The Right   Born On A Train   Brazil   Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts   Can't Let Go Of You   Cars And Telephones   City With No Children   Cold Wind   Crown of Love   Crucified Again   Culture War   Dear Slim   Deep Blue   Don't Wait   Empty Room   Flashbulb Eyes   Flashbulb Eyes (Dennis Bovell remix ft. Linton Kwe...   Flashbulb Eyes (Dennis Bovell Remix)   Flatland   Games Without Frontiers   Get Right   Gin Sippin'   Goodnight Boy   Haïti   Haiti   Half Light I   Half Light II   Half Light II (No Celebration)   Half Light ll (No Celebration)   Headlights Look Like Diamonds   Here Comes The Night Time   Here Comes The Night Time II   Here Comes the Night Time, Pt. 2   Here Comes the Night Time, Pt. II   Horn Of Plenty   I'm Sleeping in a Submarine   In The Backseat   Intervention   It's Never Over   It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)   It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)   It\u2019s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)   It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)   Joan Of Arc   Keep The Car Running   Laika   Lenin   Loneliness #3 (Night Talking)   M.I.A.   Martha Stewart   Milk & Honey (Alan Watts & 641)   Milk And Honey   Modern Man   Month Of May   Morning TalkSupersymmetry   Mountains Beyond Mountains   Move   My Boby Is A Cage   My Body Is a Cage   My Buddy   My Buddy (Alvino Rey And His Orchestra cover)   My Heart is an Apple   Neighborhood #1   Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)   Neighborhood #2   Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)   Neighborhood #2 (laika)   Neighborhood #3   Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)   Neighborhood #4   Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)   Neighborhood #5 (Hockey)   Neon Bible   No Cars Go   No Celebration   Normal Person   Ocean Of Noise   Old Flame   Porno   Power Out   Prologue   Ready To Start   Rebellion   Rebellion (lies)   Reflektor   Revolutionist   Rococo   Some Other Place   Sonata   Song On The Beach   Speaking in Tongues   Sprawl I   Sprawl I (Flatland)   Sprawl II   Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)   Sprawl(flatland)   Suburban War   Supersymmetry   Surf City Eastern Block   Take Me Out   The Arcade Fire   The Great Arcade Fire   The Greater Depression   The Pledge Of Allegiance   The Suburbs   The Suburbs (Continued)   The Suburbs Continued   The Well & The Lighthouse   The Well and the Lighthouse   The Woodland National Anthem   The Woodlands National Anthem   The Year Is   This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)   This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)   This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Hea...   Tunnels   Une Année Sans Lumière   Une Annee Sans Lumiere   Unseen   Vampire/Forest Fire   Vampire\/Forest Fire   Vampires / Forest Fire   Virgin Mary Highway   Wake Up   Wasted Hours   We Exist   We Used To Wait   We’re All Leaving   Well & The Lighthouse, The   What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock)   When Lenin Was Little   William Pierce   Windowsill   Winter for a Year   Women of a Certain Age   You Already Know

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