Intervention – English Lyrics

• By: Arcade Fire

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

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Keys taken back I throw

The people they all grow

And choose what they want written on their stone

All quiet and alone

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You can taste the fear

Lift me up and take me out of here

I know I want to fight I want to die

Just tell me what to say

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Working for the church while your family dies

Little baby sister gonna lose her mind

Every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope

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Hear the soldiers groan

All quiet and alone

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There's something in the air

The people they all sit and stare

And tell me what they point to tell me where

And tell me…

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Who's gonna throw the very first stone?

Whose gonna re-set the bone?

Sitting with his head in a sling

I hear the soldier sing

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Working for the church while your family dies

Little baby sister gonna lose her mind

Every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope

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Hear the soldiers groan

All quiet and alone

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Sunshine light

Someone teach me how to fly

And onto something for wish I would die, but I just don't know what

Though I can taste the fear

Lift me up and take me out of here

And make it all concisely clear

You know I'm gonna fade

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Working for the church while your family dies

Little baby sister gonna lose her mind

Every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope

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Hear the soldiers groan

All quiet and alone

Hear the soldiers groan

All quiet and alone

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Key Grammar Structures

• Keys taken back I throw

  ➔ Present Perfect Passive

  ➔ The phrase uses the present perfect passive to indicate an action completed before the present, with 'keys taken back' as the focus.

• The people they all grow

  ➔ Subject-Verb Agreement

  ➔ The verb 'grow' agrees with the plural subject 'the people', demonstrating proper subject-verb agreement.

• You can taste the fear

  ➔ Modal Verb (can)

  ➔ The modal verb 'can' is used to express ability or possibility, here indicating the ability to 'taste the fear'.

• I know I want to fight I want to die

  ➔ Coordinate Conjunction (and implied)

  ➔ The sentence uses coordinated clauses without an explicit conjunction, implying 'and' between 'I want to fight' and 'I want to die'.

• Working for the church while your family dies

  ➔ Present Participle Clause

  ➔ The phrase 'Working for the church' is a present participle clause used to describe an ongoing action concurrent with 'your family dies'.

• Every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope

  ➔ Future Simple with 'will'

  ➔ The future simple tense with 'will' is used to predict or express a future action, here 'will die'.

• There's something in the air

  ➔ Present Simple with 'there is'

  ➔ The present simple tense with 'there is' is used to state a fact or current situation, here 'something in the air'.

• Whose gonna re-set the bone?

  ➔ Interrogative Pronoun (Whose)

  ➔ The interrogative pronoun 'whose' is used to ask about ownership or responsibility, here 'whose gonna re-set the bone?'