"The Kids Don't Stand A Chance" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- A devastating backstroke
- All the way from France
- With shiny, shiny cufflinks
- A shirtsleeve to enhance
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- The pin-striped men of morning
- Are coming for to dance
- With pure Egyptian Cotton
- The kids don't stand a chance
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- You criticize the practice
- By murdering their plants
- Ignoring all the history
- Denying them romance
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- The pin-striped men of morning
- Are coming for to dance
- Forty-million dollars
- The kids don't stand a chance
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- I didn't like the business,
- But that was at first glance
- Your pillow feels so soft now
- But still you must advance
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- The pin-striped men of morning
- The partners in the dance
- The paper's shot to pieces
- The kids don't stand a chance
"One Blake's Got A New Face" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- Occident out on the weekend
- That's the way that we relax
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- English Breakfast tastes like Darjeeling
- But she's too cute to even ask
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- Blake's got a new face (Blake's got a new face)
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- Nastiness will cause your doom
- Turn and walk back to your room
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- The precedent's already set now
- You spend a week in Old San Juan
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- Spanish brownstone with chairs of leather
- And Spanish waves to roll along
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- Majesty's not overheard
- Cryptographs can't stand the word
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- Oh your collegiate grief has left you dowdy in sweatshirts
- Absolute horror!
"I stand corrected" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- You've been checking on my facts
- And I admit I have been lax
- In double-screening what I say
- It wasn't funny anyway
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- I stand corrected
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- No one cares when you are wrong
- But I've been at this far too long
- To act like that when we should be
- In perfect harmony
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- I stand corrected
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- Lord knows I haven't tried
- I'll take my stand
- One last time
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- Forget the protocol
- I'll take your hand
- Right in mine
"walcott" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
- Walcott, Mystic seaport is that way
- Don't you know that your life would be lost out of Cape Cod tonight?
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- Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
- Walcott, the bottleneck is a shit show
- Hyannisport is a ghetto out of Cape Cod tonight
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- Lobster's claw is sharp as knives
- Evil feasts on human lives
- The Holy Roman Empire roots for you
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- Walcott, all the way to New Jersey
- All the way to the Garden State, out of Cape Cod tonight
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- Walcott, fuck the women from Wellfleet
- Fuck the bears out in Provincetown
- Heed my words and take flight
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- Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
- Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
- (Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
- Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
- Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?)
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- As a young girl
- Louis Vuitton
- With your mother
- On a sandy lawn
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- As a sophomore
- With reggaeton
- And the linens
- You're sitting on
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- Is your bed made?
- Is your sweater on?
- Do you want to
- Like you know I do
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- But this feels so unnatural
- Peter Gabriel too
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- Can you stay up
- To see the dawn
- In the colors
- Of Benetton?
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- Is your bed made
- Is your sweater on
- Do you want to
- Like you know I do
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- But this feels so unnatural
- Peter Gabriel too
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- Is your bed made
- Is your sweater on
- Do you want to
- Like you know I do
"bryn" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- Ion displacement
- Won't work in the basement
- Especially when i'm not with you
- Here in the heartland
- A feelin so startlin
- I dont know what i should do
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- Oh Bryn, you see through the dark
- Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart
- You know its easy to see
- Wait for the season to come back to me
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- Nights by the ocean
- A westerly motion
- That moves california to sea
- Eyes like a seagull
- No kansas palm beetle
- Could ever come close to that free
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- Oh Bryn, you see through the dark
- Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart
- You know its easy to see
- Wait for the season to come back to me
"campus" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- I wake up
- My shoulder's cold
- I've got to leave here
- Before I go
- I pull my shirt on
- Walk out the door
- Drag my feet along the floor
- I pull my shirt on
- Walk out the door
- Drag my feet along the floor
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- Then I see you
- You're walking cross the campus
- Cruel professor
- Studying romances
- How am I supposed to pretend
- I never want to see you again?
- How am I supposed to pretend
- I never want to see you again?
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- Walk to class
- In front of ya
- Spilled kefir
- On your keffiyah
- You look inside
- And turn to the door
- Drag your feet along the floor
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- Then I see you
- You're walking cross the campus
- Cruel professor
- Studying romances
- How am I supposed to pretend
- I never want to see you again?
- How am I supposed to pretend
- I never want to see you again?
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- In the afternoon
- You're out on the stone and grass
- And I'm sleeping on the balcony
- After class
"m79" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- It's going to take a little time
- While you're waiting like a factory line
- I'll ride across the park
- Backseat on the 79
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- Wasted days you've come to pass
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- So go I know you would not stay
- It wasn't true, but anyway
- Pollination yellow cab
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- You walk up the stairs
- See the French kids by the door
- Up one more flight
- See the Buddha on the second floor
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- Coronation rickshaw grab
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- So go, I know you would not stay
- It wasn't true, but anyway
- Racist dreams you should not have
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- No excuse to be so callous
- Dress yourself in bleeding madras
- Charm your way across the Khyber Pass
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- Stay awake to break the habit
- Sing in praise of Jackson Crowter
- Watch your step along the arch of glass
"A-Punk" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- Johanna drove slowly into the city
- The Hudson River all filled with snow
- She spied the ring on His Honor's finger
- Oh-oh-oh
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- A thousand years in one piece of silver
- She took it from his lilywhite hand
- Showed no fear - she'd seen the thing
- In the Young Men's Wing at Sloan-Kettering
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- [CHORUS:]
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- Look outside at the raincoats coming, say OH
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- His Honor drove southward seeking exotica
- Down to the Pueblo huts of New Mexico
- Cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas
- Oh-oh-oh
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- I saw Johanna down in the subway
- She took an apartment in Washington Heights
- Half of the ring lies here with me
- But the other half's at the bottom of the sea
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- [CHORUS]
"Mansard Roof" Lyrics
Vampire Weekend
- I see a mansard roof through the trees
- I see a salty message written in the eaves
- The ground beneath my feet
- The hot garbage and concrete
- And now the tops of buildings, I can see them too
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- The Argentines collapse in defeat
- The admiralty surveys the remnants of the fleet
- The ground beneath their feet
- Is a nautically-mapped sheet
- As thin as paper
- While it sinks away from view
