Wolf Parade - Language City

"Language City" from Wolf Parade's 06/16/08 album, At Mount Zoomer
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[@matthewsnyder674]

This song, witnessed live, is transformative.

[@UncleAnaesthesia]

Sounds like many references to Montreal as a city. Language politics aside, "always working just to tear it down" must be a reference to year-round construction that it's infamously known for and the Turcot Interchange. His heart being a parking lot, how everyone's scrambling to work "counting hours on the phone," and the disenchantment and monotony of living like that.
I was there, Wolf Parade, I was there.

[@LadyOneKC]

This album is one of my all time faves. Never gets old.

[@Xayru]

Language City is a bad old place
We all know
Where eyeballs float in space
We all know
We were tired, we can't sleep
It's crowded here, none of us leave
Language City don't mean a thing to me
Audiences, the same program is always on
I'd infer, it's best to avoid the law
When your wife wakes up and sees
Shut the blinds and block out the street
Language City don't mean a thing to me
All this working
Just to tear it down
All this working
Just to tear it down
Language City is a bad, old place
We all know
Eyeballs float in space
We all know
We're tired, we can't sleep
It's crowded in the street
Language City don't mean a thing to me
I been here so long my heart is a parking lot
Hollow feet rooted to the spot
But the fields are beyond belief
From tower out to where I can see
Language City don't mean a thing to me
All this working
Just to tear it down
All this working
Just to tear it down
On the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Someone's counting the hours
In a paper room
In a paper room
In a paper room
Somebody's counting the hours
Know I know it's true
From above this room
Somebody's counting the hours
The hours
The hours
The houuuuurs
Oh the long bitter road
Let us down
Oh the ringing telephone
There's no one around
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone

[@AndrewsArchives]

Those first 3 notes are enough to send chills down my spine. Truly one of WP's best songs.

[@male1456]

I agree mate

[@male1456]

"language city don't mean a thing to me...WE ARE NOT AT HOME!"

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"Wasted something simple, it's all eating crow, croutons swelling in the morning dew vs. an ant ridden banana peel."
,dan'

[@justinc819]

On the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Someone's counting the hours
In a paper room
In a paper room
In a paper room
Somebody's counting the hours
Know I know it's true
From above this room
Somebody's counting the hours
The hours
The hours
The hours
Oh the long bitter road
Let us down
Oh the ringing telephone
There's no one around
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
We are not at home
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone
Hang on the telephone

[@matthewsnyder674]

chills every time

[@wellthatisgr8er]

creative aproach to pop music, different than in most pop music

[@Rain_Dancer134]

11 years ago. Fuckin hell

[@sophieauclair7667]

now 15 and I share your feeling

[@reesesboot2513]

These studio versions are just terrible.

[@Bikewithlove]

That’s because I didn’t produce it. If they let me record them, they’ll sound better than Crowded House. They should at least call up Johnathan Bree. He’d do a good job.