Question Description
I’m working on a english question and need guidance to help me learn.
For your initial post due Thursday, read the lyrics for and/or listen to the song. Based only on the lyrics (I do not care what the internet thinks about the song), what key message/messages do you think the band is trying to get across to listeners? Use evidence from the lyrics to back up your claims.
Here is a link to the song: Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort”
Here are the Lyrics:
Some boys hate themselves
Spend their lives resenting their fathers
Some girls hate their bodies
Stand in the mirror and wait for the feedback
Saying, “God, make me famous”
“If you can’t, just make it painless”
“Just make it painless”
Assisted suicide
She dreams about dying all the time, she
Told me she came so close
Filled up the bathtub and put on our first record
Just make it painless
Just make it painless
It goes on and on, I don’t know what I want
On and on, I don’t know if I want it
On and on, I don’t know what I want
On and on, I don’t know if I want it
(On and on, I don’t know what I want)
(On and on, I don’t know if I want it)
(On and on, I don’t know what I want)
(On and on, I don’t know if I want it)
Some girls hate themselves
Hide under the covers with sleeping pills, and
Some girls cut themselves
Stand in the mirror and wait for the feedback
Creature comfort makes it painless
Bury me penniless and nameless
Born in a diamond mine
It’s all around you, but you can’t see it
Born in a diamond mine
It’s all around you, but you can’t touch it
Sayin’, “God, make me famous”
“If you can’t, just make it painless”
“Just make it painless”
It’s not painless
She was a friend of mine, a friend of mine
And we’re not nameless, oh
It goes on and on, I don’t know what I want
On and on, I don’t know if I want it
On and on, I don’t know what I want
On and on, I don’t know if I want it
(On and on, I don’t know what I want)
(On and on, I don’t know if I want it)
(On and on, I don’t know what I want)
Well, if you’re not sure, better safe than sorry
Creature comfort, make it painless!
Creature comfort, make it painless!
We’re the bones under your feet
The white lie of American prosperity
We wanna dance, but we can’t feel the beat
I’m a liar, don’t doubt my sincerity
Just make it painless
Creature comfort, make it painless!
Creature comfort, make it painless!