No Cars Go

No Cars Go, the fourth single released from 2007’s Neon Bible, was actually a re-recorded version of a song that appeared, in slightly less anthemic form, on the band’s self-released debut EP. As with much of the second album, the song is grandiose in scope, but reaches the sort of joyous, escapist climax that is suggested, but never fully realized throughout the rest of the album. On its own, No Cars Go is one of Neon Bible’s most accessible, immediate songs, but in the narrative arc of the album, it takes on an even greater significance.

(Hey!) (Hey!) [Verse 1] We know a place where no planes go We know a place where no ships go [Chorus 1] (Hey!) No cars go (Hey!) No cars go Where we know [Verse 2] We know a place no spaceships go We know a place where no subs go [Chorus 1] (Hey!) No cars go (Hey!) No cars go Where we know [Interlude] (Go!) No go! [Chorus 2] (Hey!) Us kids know (Hey!) No cars go Where we know [Bridge] Between the click of the light and the start of the dream Between the click of the light and the start of the dream Between the click of the light and the start of the dream Between the click of the light and the start of the dream [Outro] Little babies, let's go! Women and children, let's go! Old folks, let's go! Don't know where we're going