My favorite arcade fire song. I used to play it on my way back home after spending a long night studying at the library and feeling depressed as hell. I have graduated already and I am a doctor now. Thanks Arcade Fire for making such a good music that someone like me who lives on the other side of the world could relate to and enjoy.

this songs hits the spot, you really don't know the role of being a man when you're young, and you have to kind of figure it out on your own. The role of the modern man is not knowing where you're going or what to do. Like the songs says, “If it's so right, how come you can't sleep at night”, it's the uncertainty of being young and anxious to get to something better right away.

24. Dallas. Working a shitty first job post-college. Having bigger dreams. Aunts and uncles are dying. Quarter-life crisis setting in. "Something don't feel right." 10 years later. Travelled the world. Reconciled with people. Writing books. Making the best of life.

So is some Suburbs 10th anniversary thing happening or something? Lots of Suburbs era (the best AF era imo) posts here and on Twitter.

When I first heard this song 10 years ago in university, I was too young and naive to understand what was being foretold. Many years later adulting I am now know familiar with that feeling, something is not right. I hope that wherever you are reading this, you gain the strength to confront it.

I've loved this song for so many years. I think it's ultimately a tragedy. The end is grim acceptance. He tried to rebel against the modern man, tried to erase his number, break his mirror; but instead, he just became the modern man.

this album was a life changer for me.. so so good. Coming back to it these years later, hits different.

This song is about being enlightened and you realize it, but you are frustrated because circumstance is holding you back from doing anything about it. Couldn’t be more true in the age we are all living today.

Art. You can't grow without it. You can't be humble without it.

I see Arcade Fire, I click

One of my favorites!!

I luv this song too much. The suburbs is a masterpiece.

So subtle, so evocative.

Thank you all for commenting and listening to this wonderful song. It helps me realize I'm not alone.😪❤

I had a dream last night that I saw them in a show for just me and my mom, somewhere weird, we were standing on large pieces of cloth. And Arcade Fire played this song down below. It was funny to think of 7+ people making a show for me and my mom only.

One of my favorite Arcade Fire songs :)

I saw them play in Portland! Go see this band live! In my top 3

Love this song, pretty much perfect and one of their most underrated. It continues a common theme from The Suburbs, of the corrosive impact of technology. "In line for a number but you don't understand... if it feels so right, how come you can't sleep at night". I picture the crowds on line waiting for the newest iphone, thinking it will make them happy.

BR presente 🇧🇷

This album, this song, feel so... now. Now.

Real masterpiece

I relate to this so much cuz, I'm a modern man.. makes me feel like, something don't feel right

une tristesse et une rage contenues...un chef d'œuvre

Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing

I can't stop making the love to the "play" Buttom

Me sinto um homem moderno quando ouço Arcade Fire

A modern classic

This song is great!

Love everything. Be free modern man

How long we wait for a video lyrics...almost 10 years!

Thanks for reminding me to listen to this gem in what is certainly the worst year ever.

Fantastic song.

Best AF album

This song gives me life.

Great band, great songs!

Best The Suburbs song. I hope I'll enjoy it live in the future...

summer of 20 11 come back to me

I take a more literal interpretation. "Dream" being either waking or not, but if "you can't sleep"...that aligns with my experience & how I feel this. I WAS "almost there" and was sabotaged quite on purpose from more than 1 angle, as was my partner, as so many have been now, a few years later. We've been aware our undoing has been mounted again and again but couldn't see just how dire would the situation overall be 'allowed to go'. Unspeakable. It's not stopping. I'm 50 & can see back to the 70's enough to have an idea...and always also sense what's gone wrong/going wrong ahead, at the same time quite possibly very unnecessary - as there def have been ways to stop participating/pave way/make outcomes more to our own design. The blurry line of those unrealized potentials cannot now be known & holy sh*t is it too late for so many ppl so many things. Looking back, If I could have just known 1 thing, in my youth (9 yo - teen) the truth that I actually had it right, had the correct pov/assessment what may I have done instead!??! But I had kids so had to (sortof) wait for them to grow up...yet that could only work to a point. I still had to make choices no one would sign up for. The Purpose of a System IS What It Does. The brilliance of Arcade Fire includes songs like this that capture the essential AND most salient aspects of what our collective human condition is like, our suffering manufactured to feed those who benefit most from it, as we somehow also refuse to grasp the whole operation. The music crafts an expression of the emotional levels - that I'm afraid of, while precisely naming the intellectual sides I prefer to retreat into and reside in, as if to postpone the truth of feeling and experiencing all together, in the moment, of each moment. I learn that lesson every time I listen to their music.

Hits home.

And yet ANOTHER great AF song👍 xx

So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man And the people behind me, they can't understand Makes me feel like Makes me feel like So I wait in line, I'm a modern man And the people behind me, they can't understand Makes me feel like Something don't feel right Like a record that's skipping I'm a modern man And the clock keeps ticking I'm a modern man Makes me feel like Makes me feel like In my dream I was almost there And you pulled me aside and said you're going nowhere They say we are the chosen few But we're wasted And that's why we're still waiting On a number from the modern man Maybe when you're older you will understand Why you don't feel right Why you can't sleep at night now In line for a number but you don't understand Like a modern man In line for a number but you don't understand Like a modern man Oh I had a dream I was dreaming And I feel I'm losing the feeling Makes me feel like Like something don't feel right I erase the number of the modern man Want to break the mirror of the modern man Makes me feel like Makes me feel like In my dream I was almost there But you pulled me aside and said you're going nowhere I know we are the chosen few But we're wasted And that's why we're still waiting In line for a number but you don't understand Like a modern man In line for a number but you don't understand Like a modern man And you feel so right But how come you can't sleep at night? In line for a number but you don't understand Like a modern man I'm a modern man I'm a modern man I'm a modern man I'm a modern man

This song changed my life :)

Best band this side of the 20th century.

love the lyrics...

Pura Nostalgia 🍃

I love this song

Amazing🥰

Awesome song! I love it and listen to it all the time!

love ittttt ✨🧚🏽‍♀️

Love the song! Great song don't need complicated video.

My favourite album

What a classic

Banda espetacular. Amazing

More than that+song+youtube

Probably my favorite AF song, although Neighborhoods #2 and wake up come pretty close

Love it....

"Maybe when you're older you will understand Why you don't feel right Why you can't sleep at night now" Best part of the song tbh

¿Alguien que hable español que le encante esta preciosa banda? 🇲🇽

New merch looks soooo cool! I'm gonna buy a shirt as soon as I can!

Super

I’m mad we probably missed some full play through of this in Montreal or toronto. Sigh

This is my fav song from you guys!

Wow I am crazy early, keep up the bops bois 😊

Comentario Mexa ✋ me encanta esta banda forever 🔥🥺

Amazing song.

5 dislikes only! Keep it that way, modern people!

Loving This

This is good stuff, i am falling in love for arcade

💖💖💖💖💖

God bless. Just what I needed.

Refreshing!

😍😍😍👌

kinda sad I found this song so late! Released in 2010, when I listen to it it feels like I listened to it 10 years ago.

Great

That wassss powerfull :)

I'm curious to know what the lyrics mean to them

Who thinks Arcade Fire should do a special tour when they would play The Suburbs entirely?

love it!

Amo esta canción!

this photo looks exactly like the suburbs front cover!

I love you. Keep going. Je vous aime.

KOOL

ME DAN VIDA ♡

Funny story, Jamie Dornan kinda introduced me to this awesome song.

Amoooo

Slowed this one down to perfection on my channel to enjoy for even longer

🖤

I LOVE YOUR MUSIC

Listening to this song just now I thought of the lyrics in relation to Win’s recently publicized ..indiscretion’s and I also forgave him. I already held the opinion that it’s really only his wife who has the right to judge him but I’ve lost that feeling of disappointment I had, that he’d corrupted his lyrics because he was supposed to be thoughtful and introspective, better than us. But I realize now they are about the exact opposite. That he’s not better and that he never thought he was. He just has a nice way of putting it into words. I hope he and his family eventually come out of it healed and content.

Заебумба

If you like this song, which I love, try A Well Resected Man and Celluloid Heroes by the great band of the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Kinks. Lots of great reflective songs. Lola…….

❤️☮️

Great!! like the funeral

♥️♥️♥️♥️

Ready to start is not part of album, the suburbs.

Pls come back to México ♡♡♡

I love you

the first time i heard this song was on vinyl and i thought my record was skipping, i was so annoyed

Fait ch- - ! ce corona ,I want to see them 😔

Litteraly me :D