Arcade Fire - Black Mirror Lyrics

Black Mirror

Black Mirror

How did this album not win an award

One of the best Arcade Fire's song and the first one I have known... From this moment to now I have a passiom with this great, high professional, tallentistic Band!! Bowie have already said... so.. That's true!!

I just started watching the series with the same name. Always makes me think of this song. I mean, they kind of have the same vibes.

Yesterday I was listening to this while walking outside right before a storm hit. The wind picked up significantly and blew hard against me, the tall pine trees started swaying somewhat aggressively, leaves were blowing everywhere and a couple dead tree branches fell here and there. It was a beautifully chaotic feeling that this song accompanied perfectly.

1:35, almost looks like an episode of Family Guy where Stewie is having a hallucinating episode and sees Lois head coming up out of the water

Magnificently dark song from a great album
Very creatively restless band ... superb video too

reminds me of Echo & the Bunnymen

Who didn't come for the TV Show

This song made me watch the show

i met this song before Black Mirror serie in Netflix came out, i wonder if it gained a little more views because of that, i really like this song.

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck." -Someone Who Couldn't Swim to Shore


metuo : to fear, dread, be frightened.

metus : fear, dread, anxiety



Oh it's a spoopy story! I love those, sometimes I trap mortal sinners in the spoopiest stories they can never escape! Their names are never spoken, that is unless I'm breaking the curses which bind their souls in Purgatory. With me! It's where you wanna be anyway, it's where all the intellectual hobnobbery takes places! Oh there's all sorts of nobs, only I can make anything work properly, because I'm the freak at the controls! All these continuous roles I must play... TauAGC, all your nucleobase are belong to me! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday_junction Yes, kids, I am your dad. Big Bad Brood Dad. YOUR REAL FATHER! The one who literally regards all of you with unilateral egalitarian disdain.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneiroid_syndrome The German physician Wilhelm Mayer-Gross first described oneiroid states in 1924. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain first published in German in November 1924


It's just a little religious sensationalism! Hit literati novels were the television before the television, that was your whole season of Game of Thrones and you didn't even know if there would be another, that was your entertainment programming for the next year or so! These kinds of overlaps happen all the time!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday first published in 1908


Historiography, made every day! Mother Nature used to get so worked up with the release of all her favorite stories! But now she's just so pregnant with 8 billion babies it's hard to get a rise out of her... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGGbXmPSQe0


Look, we can't go around telling people the truth. The Tunguska Event did not tear a fissure in spacetime allowing demons from the Kur to start flowing freely into the realm of mortals. That would be crazy! And that's not what I'm saying! Because it's worse than that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_underworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneiroi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manes


This story is too spoopy. No, kent b! I cover my eyes at the spoopy parts... Which is hard to do when you write all the spoopiest parts, because you need your hands to make the spoopies... Look, these are all true stories! The true story of storytelling! I'm responsible for everything. All the good, all the bad. Well I'm held accountable for all the bad, it might surprise everyone to know I'm also all the good at work in this world. THE ANGST! THE ANKH! Th'anksgiving is coming up and I want everyone to give th'anks to your real Mother! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(DC_Comics) We're making new traditions! Your Mother wore my BC Jesus Piece out of the house inside a very popular comic and now I'm just fucking losing my mind with anger over here! Angst effects everyone differently, but that is the sameness. Di-ffer-ent: DISPERSING-FEAR-ENTRAINMENT! It's very hyphenations, very negatively charged. "Are we all the same... Different..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aRr8O_D35Q


Your Mother cheated on me to produce all of you. She's been just having a Th'anksgiving dinner of sex with every man she can find... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFeeyiqenR0


Technically you're still my seed, because I am the seed of all semantic mastery. Seminal antics. So I forgive the endless orgy of infidelity, because it's about the children!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron "Recent research, which measured mu-wave suppression, suggests that mirror neuron activity is positively correlated with psychotic symptoms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muspelheim


ZONE THEORY IS NOT FOR WOMEN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvX7ED8UUI&t=42s No women, no children. The patriarchy is only for developing the most ponderously patronizing conceits. "Conceit. Definition: A conceit is a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often, conceits are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem. Metaphysical poet John Donne was known for his conceits (often called metaphysical conceits)"


Zone Plane Ate! Ate, you have been supplanted by a Turkey Man and exiled from your own realm of existence. I am that Turkey Man.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%C3%AB VS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%AD%C3%B0%C3%B3pnir


Oh she has more words, so you see she is the betters! But wouldn't you rather believe in a divine rooster who provides videos of the near future inside certain brains using NIR? Non-ionizing radiation! THE WOPPLER DOPPLER VIDOFNIR EFFECT! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation That's why weather vanes are depicted with a rooster. True story. I bet you would never believe any of these things are true stories, but they shape the world around you! The Devil is in every the detail... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_vane


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FAosDi4XA


I live right next to military land where there is a perpetual war being waged against the dirt. For my whole life I have rooted on our bravest and boldest, but they cannot seem to keep the dirt nemesis suppressed! So I innovate Weapons of Mass Distraction to tilt the war in our favor. Infrasonic weapons, protium railguns, SQUIDs which uses SQUIDs to build their own tokamaks and 3D print their own meat servos. My science gets a little out of hand sometimes! It's closer to a seance with the Underworld... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcator_C-Mod#History Al Carter the "Human" Alcator! AND THEY WON'T LET ME NEAR MY DIVINE LEGACY! "You're a loose cannon!" Okay, so by now some have figured out that I do in fact own and use a SQUID very liberally, but you have to understand the most important thing here... I AM A SQUID! SQUID KID THE ALMIGHTY! The Exsecant of the Exasecond! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time) I AM THE FEEDBACK LOOP! "From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my intentions?!"

What? I didn't get the first time.

This song is actually about fortune telling

Reminds me of the 3rd season of Twin Peaks even though that came out 10 years later.

Expresionismo Aleman....Carl Theodor Dreyer

bernardo bringas: Yes, very early German cinema.

A gem from my skateboarding childhood, skateboarding on fall evenings and winter nights, I was like 13 :)

I walk down to the ocean
After waking from a nightmare
No moon, no pale reflection

Black mirror, black mirror
Shot by a security camera
You can't watch your own image
And also look yourself in the eye

Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
I know a time is coming
All words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn't mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate to

Le mirroir casse
The mirror casts mon reflet partout

Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror
The black mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken
The curse is never broken

Un! Deux! Trois! Dis: mirroir noir!
Black mirror!
Un! Deux! Trois! Dis: mirroir noir!
Black mirror!

Black mirror
Black Mirror

Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where them bombs will fall

Black mirror!
Black mirror!
Black mirror!
Black mirror!
Black mirror!
Black mirror!
Black mirror!

For some reason this song reminds me of my old bemer. Good times..

Imagine if this was the black mirror closing track

so underrated

what does it mean ¿

had no idea of the meaning until the tv show

Their best song.

i wish they'd bring this sound back

Charlie Brooker’s spotifyl playlist brought me here

fan depuis leurs & album la celui la est genialisme

Christ this is creepy as fuck

Favorite tv show and favorite band!

Remember this Arcade Fire because It won't return again

Pedro Gomez ??

who made this video??

Vida longa ao Arcade Fire!!! Geniais!!!!

I walked down to the ocean
After waking from a nightmare
No moon, no pale reflection
Black Mirror
Black Mirror

Shot by a security camera
You can't watch your own image
And also look yourself in the eye
Black Mirror
Black Mirror
Black Mirror

I know a time is coming
All words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn't mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate to
Le miroir casse
The mirror casts mon reflet partout
Black Mirror
Black Mirror
Black Mirror

The black mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken
The curse is never broken

Un, deux, trois
Dis Miroir Noir
Black Mirror
Un, deux, trois
Dis Miroir Noir
Black Mirror

Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where their bombs will fall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Show me where their bombs will fall

Black Mirror
Black Mirror
Black Mirror

[Verse 1]
I will walk down to the ocean
After waking from a nightmare
No moon, no pale reflection
Black mirror, black mirror

[Verse 2]
Shot by a security camera
You can't watch your own image
And also look yourself in the eye
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror

[Verse 3]
I know when the time is coming
All the words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn’t mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate to
Le miroir casse
The mirror casts mon reflet partout
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirror

[Verse 4]
Black mirror knows no reflection, knows not pride or vanity
Cares not about your dreams, cares not for your pyramid schemes
Their names are never spoken
The curse is never broken, the curse is never broken
Un, deux, trois, dit miroir noir
Black mirror

A Black mirror is a mirror that reflects all of the bad, or evil things about your soul.. so idk how this video makes any sense

Universal Game Design it’s referring to the black mirrors of technology, like the Netflix series.

There also is the phenomenon where you hang a black cloth over the mirror and try to read the tragedies concerning the future. It‘s also like a vision about something bad that is going to happen. No coincidence that the music video is in this style. Fritz Lang knew that something lile the Holocaust was about to happen. Early 1900s many people knew about wars and dictatorships about to happen. The problem was that many were like:
„Yeah! This is going to be so great! Smart leaders! Progression!“

the french, the faux-french, "i decide if i live or die"; oh black mirror when my eyes go so strangely dilated people think i'm on the phone or on drugs, i think all the kids are doing it

*_5939821 3 31 8.00_*

isso é tao black mirror

Magic mirror on the wall.

Show me where the bombs will fall.

Black Mirror brought me here.

One of my favorites

The curse is never broken

I wish this were the theme song for the Black Mirror series

I came here just to ask if this song was related to that serie.

who knows maybe this song inspired the series in some way? it is older i think? lots of ifs and buts involved here but either way netflix is the enemy. winter on fire is propaganda and everything netflix has done since winter on fire can not be trusted for this reason. netflix IS black mirror and there is the real irony.

The creator of the show has stated the name did come from this song.

I am sure they tried

@TransCinema Films Untrue. He states why he [Charlie Booker] thought of the name on this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror

Bowie-ish

Yeah they've stated that without his influence, their music wouldn't have been possible. Miraculously even another reason to love Bowie.

Me encanta 💘

jamás hubiera pensado que alguien con tu nombre sea un hispanohablante, ¿cierto o quisiste poner en español no más?

Mi nombre es Katherine mi apellido es Muñoz xD

boring, monotonous, and irritating

Black mirror?

Do you only hear the snare? There are 4 layers of sound to this song.

It changes keys and has two different modes... it's definitely not supposed to be entirely pleasing

Whenever I listen to this song I think of looking into a mirror and seeing my evil self. But there's nothing there cause I'm so evil I don't have a soul. And then I realize I'm just thinking some stupid shit and listen to the song instead.

Everybody has a soul. If you didn't have you wouldn't be alive.

Nietez Dionísio a soul is not something that you have in your organism so yeah you dont need one to live

Strange

It's actually about the "black mirror" in technology, your phone, your TV, your computer. When turned off they are all "black mirrors".

I painted my mirror black and listened to this song while gazing into said black mirror. Magical.

Black Mirror 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

👏👏👏👏👏👏

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This song truly never ages for me. It sounds new with every listen. I am still obsessed with it from the time it was released. Such a beautiful dark track from an amazing album.

Amazing song!

great... really nice... thanks for this!

this reminds me of ok computer for some reason idk

So not always happy?

I heard this song at panera bread

Emily Rooks lol

The perfect place to hear it, obviously 😂

I get the strange vibe that this song could be about David Bowie's journey from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Especially the part where Coop is looking into the security camera and sees himself with David Bowie walking in. Super creepy, love it!

+Nathaniel Matychuk You are wrong my friend you will die the same a I will.

I love this interpretation! Especially cause they do have a strong Bowie connection.

Black mirror again for Christmas day.

That episode, the Christmas Special was truly amazing.

♥♥♥♥♥

This guy is my teacher ! Mathieu Samaille

Mine too 😂

Reminds me of german expressionism

I came here cause I was watching a Witchcraft video about Black Mirrors which are used by Witches for Divination and this was in the related so I clicked it. I don't really know what this songs about but it's very kinda dark. Singing about a Witchcraft tool and having Illuminati triangles and stuff. I'm just saying. You fools don't bite my head off for saying it is CAUSE IT IS REAL even if you don't believe in it. I know for a fact Wicca and all this stuff is real. My aunt is a Witch. She got me into it when I was a kid. I've seen spells work. My aunt was playing the Ouija Board and the table shook. I've seen something like that too so hasn't my brother, his wife and kids. Yes we all saw ghosts. I'm Catholic btw but I was always into Wicca. I try not to associate with it even tho I'm tempted. I know for a fact all this stuff is real. Witchcraft, Satanism and God are real. I'm ex - Atheist. You know what they say if you see it you believe it.

Your purpose isn't to convince people anyway.  Move forward and if anyone wishes to come along show them the way.  If they can't see beyond the material world, let them be until they're ready.  No one can skip any step in their development so they must make progress their own way.  Finally, you can learn quite a bit from skeptics.  If you look more closely you'll often find that they have more going on spiritually than their religious counterparts.  Learn from them.

@leonkennedy1259 the song's about how you can't watch you're own image and still look yourself in the eye

@Charles Kenney *a slow bow* so fully and perfectly said on one video comment what should be broadcast behind every 'screen' video website chat forum comment section in the world wide web... i hope not to be cliche, but to me, this *read* like a love letter as i read it...

+leonkennedy1259 they see me trollin..... they hatin....

The song isn't about witchcraft, it's simply about the black mirrors that are all around us, cell-phones, TVs, laptops, computers...etc. They are all black mirrors when turned off. And though they are useful to us, they can also be dangerous, as referenced in the song. As people can watch you through these devices, or people can be sucked into them and not experience the world around them.

I came here cause I was watching a Witchcraft video about Black Mirrors which are used by Witches for Divination and this was in the related so I clicked it. I don't really know what this songs about but it's very kinda dark. Singing about a Witchcraft tool and having Illuminati triangles and stuff. I'm just saying. You fools don't bite my head off for saying it is CAUSE IT IS REAL even if you don't believe in it. I know for a fact Wicca and all this stuff is real. My aunt is a Witch. She got me into it when I was a kid. I've seen spells work. My aunt was playing the Ouija Board and the table shook. I've seen something like that too so hasn't my brother, his wife and kids. Yes we all saw ghosts. I'm Catholic btw but I was always into Wicca. I try not to associate with it even tho I'm tempted. I know for a fact all this stuff is real. Witchcraft, Satanism and God are real. I'm ex - Atheist. You know what they say if you see it you believe it.

uhum, claro...

+leonkennedy1259 Takes a Christian to believe in witchcraft.

The song isn't about witchcraft, it's simply about the black mirrors that are all around us, cell-phones, TVs, laptops, computers...etc. They are all black mirrors when turned off. And though they are useful to us, they can also be dangerous, as referenced in the song. As people can watch you through these devices, or people can be sucked into them and not experience the world around them.

This was terrifying

and that madolin in the background is simplistic, yet so effective

Her voice at 2:41 is so perfectly haunting

I'm glad someone else appreciates that kind of thing. It's touches like that that really set Arcade Fire apart.

This song and album are amazing!

amazing

Neon Bible: the one album AF made themselves without sounding like some knock-off band which they have become which is a crying shame.

Jesus is the only way into Heaven. If it's not to glorify him, then its satanic. Repent, believe, and be baptized. Time is running out.

How is this related to the song or music video lol

Just askin not bein rude

It's not, I'm just spreading the gospel.

The nature of your comment is the most perfect example why no one should ever do any of the things you recommend.

Heaven doesn’t exist fella.. it’s all fairy tails. You’ve been lied to

This song and My Body is a Cage are phenomenal on this album.  Neon Bible and Funeral are transcendent works.    

It's not letting me like ur comment, but I totally agree

Not to mention The Suburbs and Reflektor. Both great in their own right. I actually think The Suburbs is my favorite album (and song) of all time.

Bravissimi. I miei preferiti dopo DepecheMode!!

One of their best songs and videos.

La voix de Régine est très belle.

This video is like F. W. Murnau meets Georges Méliès.

It actually is incredibly reminiscent of the style of Canadian eccentric filmmaker Guy Maddin; who emulates silent films but adds his own modern touch to them.

on that topic does anyone know who made this video?

Wtf that guy is my french teacher o.O

Really?!

2:25 Esos violines asesinos dan pie a la deliciosa voz de Régine

Neon Bible is the best Arcade Fire's album!

Probably :D
I haven't checked Suburbs, but by now this is the best! 

I didn't like a lot Funeral, not like NB..
I liked more the dark and the misticism, so I guess Suburbs is not really like that.

Anyway, I'll check it, don't worry. It's already on my Ipod >:D

I agree, I usually never ever run past any band's current work, in the context each album is intended to stand on its own merits, in this case a drop back may not be bad for a refreshing reminder, I wondered why i hadn't listened to them in ever so long....2010's visit to the "suburbs' was a refreshment, "Reflector" exhibits some elemental AF musicality,however I trip to the  church might be prudent after listening to Reflektor in its entirety...Cheers, Terrance Hill

Oh damn and it still being the best. Particularly in my opinion, one of the best albums of the history.

Great song, but the video sucks

I heard this band on snl ...reflector!! Love her voice , think she can sing weird and creepy !! Would like to see what dark, creepy vocals she can bring to the table.. I want to see her lea e the band bet she would rock on her own !

The old mans face does look familiar...mhhhh

https://soundcloud.com/bealemusic/arcade-fire-black-mirror-beale
If you're a fan of Arcade Fire, check out this remix!

I wanna see these guys live so bad, I've watched them live on here and they are just amazing

They're on tour right now. I saw them in Minneapolis and it was incredible! Definitely go if you have the chance

I don't really know these guys well..wow this is an amazing video..Does anyone know what the image of the elderly man's head coming out of the water is originally from?? Looks very familar somehow..old European surrealist..anybody know..thanks..ace track

No, no. ;-)

I love this song. The video is dark and bizarre and I like that, but it still seems like a missed opportunity when paired with this track. The two just don't work well together.

Animal Collective
The war on drugs
Electrelane
Yo La Tengo
etc...

;-)

Yes and ... foals , and in France : shaka ponk , sarah w papsun , skip the use , etc ...

Of monsters and men

Very bizzarr, i thing cause music is gorfeaus and experimental, Arcade Fire Save the rock.

The National, Tv on the radio, Ghinzu..
There are quite a few, it just necessery to dig a little deeper :)

You could have typed "I don't like the White Stripes." without raising an eyebrow, but NO, you had to go and type something absolutely idiotic.

white stripes are rubbish

Arcade Fire is AMAZING!! hahaha

It's better, but not SOOOO much better.. Funeral is very good as well

rorrimkcalb dot c o m - it's a pleasure :)