Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 1 Tunnels

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and if the snow buries my / my neighborhood
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and if my parents are crying / then i’ll dig a tunnel
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from my window to yours / yeah a tunnel from my window to yours

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you climb out the chimney / and meet me in the middle
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the middle of the town / and since there’s no one else around
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we let our hair grow long / and forget all we used to know
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then our skin gets thicker / from living out in the snow

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you change all the lead / sleepin’ in my head
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as the day grows dim / i hear you sing a golden hymn

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then we tried to name our babies / but we forgot all the names that
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the names we used to know
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but sometimes , we remember our bedrooms / and our parent’s bedrooms
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and the bedrooms of our friends
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then we think of our parents / well whatever happened to them?

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you change all the lead / sleepin’ in my head
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to gold / as the day grows dim / i hear you sing a golden hymn
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the song i’ve been trying to say

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purify the colors / purify my mind
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purify the colors / purify my mind
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and spread the ashes of the colors / over this heart of mine

[ instrumental chorus with ooohs ]
[ instrumental chorus with ooohs ]

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