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wall
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15/11/2006
19:15:33
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it means whatever you want it to mean. It`s sad though. but a beautiful song.
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funeral
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20/02/2006
00:52:28
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If the postings are true, then it sounds like the singer did lose her mother in a car crash. After the despair of the first 7 songs, the album has been gradually moving toward a sign of hope (restablishing spiritual order in the world (Haiti), and rebelling against society's lies) so I DO NOT think the point is that she just wants to stay in the back seat because she is scared. The point is that she has learned to drive the car from watching her mother, and left unsaid at the end is that she is ready to take over the wheel and guide the world toward a better destination. I feel like the entire album's theme is that death leads to rebirth. I wonder what their next album will be.
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eL tRUCKO
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05/02/2006
20:34:11
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the vocals on this song was inspired by bjork. i read it in the reviews of some magazine.
what a great sad song
what a great tragic album
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counterk
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13/12/2005
00:33:59
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I dont know about some of these interpretations, but to each his own, correct?
It seems that the song is pretty straight forward to me, the person is satisfied without burden in the beginning, she is very idle. Watching as everything goes by, the metaphor of driving compared with her life, etc., she is ignorant and is initially pleased with this state of consciousness. Once again, the band uses references to being 'asleep', which i take to be mentally asleep or intellectually ignorant; and in this state the tragic events happen. When she isnt awake to control her life, and interact with it, there is nothing she can do to alter the course of her existence. But there is hope.
Near the end of the song she admits "[shes] been learning to drive [her] whole life." which can only suggest that she had the capacity to 'wake up' but hadn't done so until now. This catastrophic event, which could have been anything probably a close death, actually allowed her to power and courage to take control of everything around her.
Great band, great song!
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murdoclazoo
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10/09/2005
01:29:40
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They said that the deaths of loved ones influenced only the title of the album.
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ashler
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31/08/2005
19:27:35
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These guys are friends of friends of mine.
Every member of Archade Fire lost someone close to them in the year prior to their album's release. In the Back Seat was written by the lead singer about her mum's death. She was sitting in the back seat when it happened.
That's why the name of the Album is Funeral and why when they perform, they all dress in black.
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murdoclazoo
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30/08/2005
00:49:34
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I think the song is about being passive in life and relationships, it;s peaceful in the backseat and you don't have to take part in or speak, "my family tree's losing all it's leaves, i think is about family falling apart by falling out of love with each other, "i've been learning to drive all my life" i think is about being taught how to conduct yourself in society and with other people and in life generally
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AbraCadaver
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20/08/2005
23:25:37
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As i read the lyrics the song begins to take on more defintion and meaning in my mind. I believe the ones who posted above are all wrong. This song is about observing your life through your eyes, and not indulging in the life itself just watching things go by passivly. Though it may be vague about alice, she grieves in the song from decay of life. The song can mean anything. Humans judge in their opinion, and their opinions may vary from one to the other creating diverse thoughts on such a ambiguous topic, hence the artist and thy expression in which one created. The man is a god himself.
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raspberrysmoothie
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14/08/2005
00:28:14
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this is one of my favorite songs! i think its f-ing amaaazing. I think the story is about a girl whose family has been killed driving and at the end shes learning how to drive tooo kill herself.. but prob not :| or to prove to herself she can overcome it.. or ive been learning like shes been trying but she cant succeed. i dunno eh? but this is definetly a gorgeous song that i could listen to constantly
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ephemere
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27/07/2005
05:07:14
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The first time I listened to this song i got chills, no joke.
The entire album is completely flawless, and this is the perfect way to end it.
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thearcadeisburning
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14/07/2005
11:43:53
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This song I feal is about A girl, and her sister or mother or any another relative that was a girl died in a car crash hens--"crashing towards the drivers seat" and " my family tree is losing all its leaves"--and she finds peace in the backlseat becuase she doesnt have to worry about getting killed in the front seat.
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save_indieans
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16/06/2005
05:34:01
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whereas i agree with the takes of daerin and everyone, i also thought that perhaps the peace of the backseat could be referring to a passivity of sorts. "i've been learning to drive all my life", in the way it was sung seemed to express (to me) a kind of regret or disdain for not having sat back and just appreciated the simplicities or foundation of her life, perhaps realized in the midst of the deaths of those close to her.
the idea of the word 'drive' itself is that there is perhaps a personal goal being sought after, and maybe she chooses to ride in the backseat now as a result of a kind of life lesson, that her 'drive' is now in the proverbial backseat, priority-wise. coinciding with what was said earlier about the touring, maybe there was some regret as to the band having taken precedence over what could have amounted to more time spent with family?
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Daerin
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05/06/2005
19:40:47
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the "falling leaves part" certainly has to do with regine's two family members dying, as to the reference of being in the car, i dont know. the "lightning" i assume is to do with perhaps how sudden and powerful the death(s) to her was(were). in the backseat could be about being on the road touring or whatnot. i thearcadeisburning could be right about the possible someone dying in the front seat, this could mean that regine is now afriad of "learning to drive" and taking the front seat. who knows?!?
a chilling and moving song. a good change of pace with the vocalist, regine certainly adds a lot more sadness and emotion to the ending track. great stuff.
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malina
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22/05/2005
18:41:57
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Mabe this song is about a child that spend a lot of time in a car. Alice could be a methaphor refering to a child(like alice in wonderland)And she died because she has grown.
Or mabe it's just because the words camed well togheter that way. Or mabe it's inspired from a book, or a movie. Or mabe i wrote that song and i don't want to tell you the truth.
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thearcadeisburning
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17/05/2005
04:22:49
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What do you think this song is about? I think that someone close to the person singing died in a car so she likes the backseat of a car more than the front (assuming that "Alice" died in the drivers seat)
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Somnio Sator
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01/05/2005
04:58:53
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This band is revolutionary.
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amir sharabi
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14/04/2005
17:57:30
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great band!!! great song,great lyrics,i cant stop hearing their song.
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Impaledonwethervane
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28/03/2005
11:34:17
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totally.
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Kahno1
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21/02/2005
07:58:56
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This song is absolutely gorgeous.
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