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Half Light I

Arcade Fire

from the album The Suburbs released in 2010

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Lyrics

Intro

    C ... Em ... F ... G ...


Verse

    C 
    You told us that
    Em 
    We were too young
             F 
    Now that night's closing in
               G 
    And in the half light... we run

    Lock us up safe
    And hide the key
    But the night tears us loose
    And in the half light... we're free

    Strange how the half light
    Can make a place new
    You can't recognize me
    And I can't recognize you

       C 
    We run through the streets 
         Em 
    That we know so well
    F 
    And the houses hide so much


Refrain 1

                    Dm 
        We're in the half light
                       G 
        None of us can tell
                      G7           C    G 
        They hide the ocean in a shell
                      G            C    G 
               ...The ocean in a shell


Refrain 2

        F 
        ...Our heads are just houses
        Dm 
        ...Without enough windows
                     F 
        They say you... hear human voices
                      G7          C     G 
            But they... only... echo
                                  C     G 
                      They only echo
                                  C     G 
                      They only echo
                                  C     G 
                        ...Only echo
                             
                                  C 
                       We are not listening...
                                       G 
                      ...We are on the streets
                                  C 
                       We are not listening...
                                       G 
                      ...We are on the streets

Notes & Tabs

Here are two different ways to play each of the chords used in this song. It is up to you to put them together in a way that does the song justice.

e-|---0----3---|---0----7-----|---1----8-----|---3----3----|---1---5-----
B-|---1----5---|---0----8-----|---1----10----|---0----3----|---2---6-----
G-|---0----5---|---0----9-----|---2----10----|---0----4----|---3---7-----
D-|---2----5---|---2----9-----|---3----10----|---0----5----|---0---7-----
A-|---3----3---|---2----7-----|---3----8-----|---2----5----|-------5-----
E-|------------|---0----------|---1----------|---3----3----|-------------
      C            Em             F              G             Dm

Chord Progressions

Verse

"You told us that, we were too young..."
| C . . . | . . . . | Em . . . | . . . . |
| F . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | . . . . |

Refrain 1

"We're in the half light, none of us can tell..."
| Dm . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | G7 . . . |
| C  . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C  . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |

Refrain 2

"Our heads are just houses, without enough windows..."
| F . . . | . . . . | Dm . . . | .  . . . |
| F . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | G7 . . . |
"They only echo..."
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
"We're not listening, we are on the streets..."
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G  . . . | .  . . . |

Song Info

Song: Half Light I
Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
Year: 2010
Label: Merge

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My name is David Potsiadlo, and I created Songnotes to share my collection of guitar tabs, chords, and lyrics for my favorite songs.

Since I started playing guitar over 10 years ago, I've often been frustrated by the preponderance of mediocre and incomplete song tabs littered across the internet. To combat this, I started keeping my own collection of notes for each song I learn -- always taking the extra time to make sure accuracy and completeness are never compromised. Years later, my collection grew to the point where I knew I had to share it online with fellow aspiring musicians.

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