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Reflektor

Release date: 24th October 2013

From Reflektor
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7:34
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About This Track

Released as the title track and first single from Arcade Fire's fourth studio album, 'Reflektor' arrived on 9th September 2013 with a guest vocal appearance from David Bowie and production from LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy alongside Markus Dravs and the band. The seven-and-a-half-minute track draws on Haitian rara music and the existential questions of Søren Kierkegaard's essay 'Two Ages', framing modern connection as a hall of mirrors where signals deflect and intimacy fractures. Win Butler and Régine Chassagne trade verses about love mediated by screens and distance, the lyrics moving between English and French as they ask whether heaven itself might feel hollow without genuine presence. The chorus refrain turns the title into a mantra of disillusionment: the way forward is only ever a reflection, the connector only ever glass. The band's guerrilla marketing campaign, inspired by veve drawings and the 1959 film 'Black Orpheus', preceded the release with cryptic symbols and the alias The Reflektors on early vinyl pressings.

"Reflektor" is a single by Arcade Fire, from the album Reflektor, released 24th October 2013. The track is 7:34 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Arcade Fire.

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Lyrics

Reflektor

(Ah)

(In the reflective age)

Trapped in a prison, in a prism of light
Alone in the darkness, darkness of white
We fell in love, alone on a stage
In the reflective age

Entre la nuit
La nuit et l'aurore
Entre le royaume
Des vivants et des morts

If this is heaven
I don't know what it's for
If I can't find you there
I don't care

I thought I found a way to enter
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
I thought I found the connector
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

Now, the signals we send are deflected again
We're still connected, but are we even friends?
We fell in love when I was 19
And now we're staring at a screen

Entre la nuit
La nuit et l'aurore
Entre le royaume
Des vivants et des morts

If this is heaven
I need something more
Just a place to be alone
'Cause you're my home

I thought I found a way to enter
It's just a Reflektor, (just a Reflektor)
I thought I found the connector
It's just a Reflektor, (just a Reflektor)

Just a Reflektor
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

(Reflektor)

Just a Reflektor
Just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor (it's just a Reflektor)

(Reflektor)
Just a Reflektor
Just a Reflektor
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
(Ah, ah)

Just a reflection
Of a reflection
Of a reflection
Of a reflection
Of a reflection, ah

Will I see you on the other side?
(It's just a Reflektor)
We all got things to hide
(Just a Reflektor)

Just a reflection (a reflection)
Of a reflection (of a reflection)
Of a reflection (of a reflection)
Of a reflection (of a reflection)
Of a reflection (of a reflection), ah

Will I see you on the other side?
(It's just a Reflektor)
We all got things to hide
(Just a Reflektor)

(Alright, let's go back)

Our song, it skips, on little silver discs
Our love is plastic, we'll break it to bits
I want to break free
But will they break me

Down, down, down?
Don't mess around

I thought I found a way to enter
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
I thought I found the connector
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor, ooh

It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

Thought you were praying to the resurrector
Turns out it was just a Reflektor
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
Thought you were praying to the resurrector
Turns out it was just a Reflektor
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

Thought you were praying to the resurrector
Turns out it was just a Reflekt—
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)
It's just a Reflektor (just a Reflektor)

Just a Reflektor

Just a Reflektor

Just a Reflektor

Will I see you on the other side?

Just a Reflektor

Ah, will I see you on the other side?

(Reflektor, Reflektor, Reflektor)
(See you on the other side)
We all got things to hide
(Reflektor, Reflektor, just a Reflektor)
Just a Reflektor

Will I see you on the, other side?

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Track details

From Reflektor

7:342013Single
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Reflektor
Reflektor
Arcade Fire
25th October 2013
Track number
1
Release year
2013
  1. 1Reflektor
    7:34
  2. 2We Exist
    5:44
  3. 4Here Comes the Night Time
    6:31
  4. 7Joan of Arc
    5:24

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    Arcade Fire, James Murphy, Mark Lawson, Markus Dravs
    Vocals
    Régine Chassagne, Win Butler
    Additional Production
    Mark Lawson
    Background Vocals
    David Bowie, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury
    Bass Guitar
    Tim Kingsbury
    Horns Arranger
    Colin Stetson
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Ben Baptie, Joe Visciano, Tom Elmhirst
    Percussion
    Baptiste Jean Nazaire, Dieuveut Mark Thelus, Verrieux Zile, Wichemond Thelus, Wilkeenson Magloire, Willinson Duprate
    Recording Engineer
    Korey Richey, Mark Lawson
    Sampling
    Kid Koala
    Saxophone
    Colin Stetson, Stuart Bogie
    Strings Arranger
    Owen Pallett
    Synthesizer
    Will Butler
    Violin
    Owen Pallett
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