Sammy Taggett's video captures Arcade Fire's nostalgic monologue about suburban summers: learning to drive, borrowing a parent's keys, houses built in the 70s, kids running through yards. The refrain warns you won't survive, competing against other hometowns for something unnamed.
Chapters
In the summer time.
I learned to drive and you told me that we never survive.
Grab your mother's keys, we're leaving.
You always seem so sure.
That one day we be fighting in a survival.
Your bottom town against mine as long as you're standing on the opposite shore.
By the time the first boss fell we were already born Already more We were already already born. Sometimes I can't believe it? I'm holding friends and feeling.
I can't believe it I'm moving past the feeling again?
Kids want to be so hot.
We'Re in the dreams we're still screaming Running through the yard.