This Could Be Anywhere in the World

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“This Could Be Anywhere in the World”
“This Could Be Anywhere in the World” cover
Single by Alexisonfire
from the album Crisis
Released November 20, 2006
Format CD
Recorded February-March 2006
Genre Post-hardcore
Screamo
Length 4:00
Label Distort Entertainment / Vagrant Records
Producer Julius Butty and Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire singles chronology
Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama
(2005)
This Could Be Anywhere in the World
(2006)
Boiled Frogs
(2006)

"This Could Be Anywhere in the World" is a song recorded by Alexisonfire for their third album Crisis (2006). It was released as the album's first single in mid-2006 and the music video topped MuchMusic's Countdown for the week of October 13, 2006. The song was nominated at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards for MuchLOUD Best Rock Video, People's Choice: Favourite Canadian Group and won the award for Best Cinematography.

[edit] Meaning

Although most song meanings are speculative, there is a reference to the storm of '76 in St. Catherine's, Ontario when many people died.[citation needed] They go on to say that the town steals lives, that they can't believe they live in the town etc.