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Neon Bible Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A vial of hope and a vial of pain,
In the light, they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world,
On every boy and every girl
[Hook]
It's in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival,
If the Neon Bible is right
[Verse 2]
Take the poison of your age,
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right,
In the city it's the only light
[Hook]
It's in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival,
If the Neon Bible is right
[Bridge]
Oh God! Well look at you now!
Oh! You lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf,
Oh God! I had to laugh!
A vial of hope and a vial of pain,
In the light, they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world,
On every boy and every girl
[Hook]
It's in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival,
If the Neon Bible is right
[Verse 2]
Take the poison of your age,
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right,
In the city it's the only light
[Hook]
It's in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival,
If the Neon Bible is right
[Bridge]
Oh God! Well look at you now!
Oh! You lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf,
Oh God! I had to laugh!
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What did Arcade Fire say about "Neon Bible"?
Genius Answer
In an interview with The A.V. Club, frontman Win Butler said:
I just jotted [the song] down in my notebook and kept coming back to it. The song was very much off-the-cuff, written in one night and recorded the next day. Lyrically, there’s a lot of stuff dealing with religion and culture, which I’m really interested in. It’s an image that I kept coming back to that really felt like it was the title of the record. And everyone else in the band agreed. I loved A Confederacy of Dunces.
- 1.Black Mirror
- 3.Neon Bible
- 4.Intervention
- 9.Windowsill
- 10.No Cars Go
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Release Date
March 3, 2007
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