Vampire Weekend

(Boy, boy) 2021, will you think about me? I could wait a year But I shouldn't wait three (Boy) I don't wanna be... (Boy) 2021, will you think about us? Copper goes green Steel beams go rust (Boy) It's a matter of... (Boy) (Boy, boy) (Boy, boy) 20...

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 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 Win...

I saw you down at the station Your leather suitcase bursts at the seams Stay all day up in your rooms now That's not a problem you've ever seen Fall on your knees wasting your arrows You thought you walked along these halls I awoke up in the bedroom Y...

No time to discuss it Can't speak when the waves Reach our house upon the dunes Time cannot be trusted When the police come They always come too soon Life felt like heaven today Like a foreign car thoughWe are American-made I thought I'd probably st...

Big blue For once in my life I felt close to you I was so overcome with emotion When I was hurt and in need of affection When I was tired and I couldn’t go home Then you offered protection So am I learning my lesson? Or am I back on my own? 

Ion displacement won't work in the basement Especially when I'm not with you Here in the heartland, a feeling so startling I don't what I should do Oh Bryn! You see in the dark Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart You know, it's easy to see Wait fo...

Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love Never really heard you speak that way, it’s unworthy of… Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club Someone took a trip before you came...

oh california oh california oh california oh oh california oh california oh california oh this girl's wardrobe's wrapped in baggy sweaters tight neon tights, t-shirts and big letters back at her house was an Irish setter with a heart shaped tag hangi...

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 Then I see you You're walking cross the campus Cruel professor...

As a young girl Louis Vuitton With your mother On a sandy lawn As a sophomore With reggaeton And the linens You're sitting on Is your bed made? Is your sweater on? Do you want to Like you know I do But this feels so unnatural Peter Gabriel too Can you stay...

You found a sweater on the ocean floor. They're gonna find it if you didn't close the door. You and the smart one sit outside of their sight, In a house on a street they wouldn't park on at night. Dad was a risk taker, his was a shoe maker, You, greatest...

You torched a Saab like a pile of leaves I’d gone to find some better wheels 4, 5 meters running round the bend When the government agents surround you again If Diane Young won’t change your mind, Baby, baby, baby, baby right on time Out of control but...

It’s not right but it’s now or never And if I wait could I ever forgive myself? On a night when the moon glows yellow in the riptide With the light from the TVs buzzing in the house Cuz I’m gonna cut it where I can And then I’m gonna duck out behind them If...

One look sent knees to the ground, Young bloods can't be settling down Young hearts need the pressure to pound, So hold me close my baby Don't lie, I want him to know Gods' loves die young, is he ready to go? It's the last time running through snow Whe...

I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself Oh I was made to live without you But I'm never gonna understand, never understand Oh I was born to...

Wake.. from your sleep The drying of your tears Today we escape, we escape Pack.. and get dressed Before your father hears us Before all hell breaks loose Breathe, keep breathing Don't lose your nerve Breathe, keep breathing I can't do this alone...

Bend my finger back (snap) Wrap it in a paper towel Break a twig in half and set it straight Hit me with a wood bat Hit me with a canister that's fired while the soldiers drive away Bend my finger back (snap) On and on and on and on for days Hit me with a w...

Flower moon Curse the night If the sun don't make things right Then it's gonna take a year Flower moon Sacred sign Coca-Cola and red wine Now's the time to disappear It was the right place, wrong time Another night at the borderline Another night i...

It was all a dream I used to read Thrasher Magazine, looking at pictures of skateboarders California So envy me, S.O.S. L.A.P.D. Docking the yacht in such low waters Alizontra Now it's a different game 80 percent still agree The winning cause, it ple...

Your sword’s grown old and rusty Burnt beneath the rising sun It’s locked up like a trophy Forgetting all the things it’s done And though it’s been a long time You’re right back where you started from I see it in your eyes That now you’re giving up the gun W...

A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows As we made our way from Providence to Phoenix A man of faith said 'hidden eyes could see what I was thinking' I just smiled and...

We took a vow in summertime Now we find ourselves in late December I believe that New Year's Eve Will be the perfect time For their great surrender But they don't remember Anger wants a voice Voices wanna sing Singers harmonize Til they can't hear a...

I know the reason why you think you gotta leave Promises of future glory don't make a case for me I did my best and all the rest is hidden by the clouds I can't carry you forever, but I can hold you now Leaving on your wedding day All calm and dressed in...

Holiday, O, A Holiday! And the best one of the year Dozing off underneath my sheets While I cover both my ears But if I wait for a holiday could it ever stop my fear? To go away on a summer’s day never seemed so clear Holiday, still so far away Our re...

In December, drinking horchata I'd look psychotic in a balaclava Winter's cold is too much to handle Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals In December, drinking horchata Look down your glasses at that aranciata With lips and teeth to ask how my day went Bo...

Tough choice? Don't make me laugh My life's a joke, your life's a gas You broke my heart at midnight mass Now I'm the ghost of Christmas past The only choice you gave to me Is one I took reluctantly 'Cause when we play democracy You always take immunity...

Hudson died in Hudson bay, the water took its victim’s name, Now rivers rise told riverside to change their names again. A stranger walked in through the door, said 'all apartments are pre-war', We laughed and asked him for his name, he stayed until the en...

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 I stand corrected 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 I s...

I had a feeling once That you and I Could tell each other everything For two months But even with our oath With truth on our side When you turn away from me It's not right I think you're a Contra I think you're a Contra I think you're a Contra I...

We sit in a car outside your house I can feel the heat a comin' 'round I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds Well you, you let out one of your bored sighs Well lately when I look into your eyes I'm going down, dow...

I know I loved you then I think I love you still But this prophecy of ours Has come back dressed to kill Three stones on a mountain Three small holes in a field You've given me the big dream But you can't make it real O, wicked world Just think what...

Last born of the clan First one to be free Lived inside a house Beneath the hanging tree Loved them deadly nights That chilled him to the bone Words were cried at night In unforgiving tones Blood of his men was gone beneath snow He picked up his knife and bo...

Chestnut park on a Saturday night Mystical boys feelin alright Raggedy wisdom falls from my hand As the ladies of Cambridge know who I am I've had dreams of Boston all of my life Chinatown between the sound of the night But if you leave I just don't thi...

It's going to take a little time While you're waiting like a factory line I'll fly across the park Backseat on the 79 Wasted days you've come to pass So go I know you would not stay It wasn't true, but anyway Pollination yellow cab You walk up the stairs Se...

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 The Argentines collapse in defeat The admiralty surveys the remnants of...

[Verse 1: Ezra Koenig] Something's happening in the country And the government’s to blame We got married in a gold rush And the rush has never felt the same [Verse 2: Danielle Haim] Shared a moment in a café Shared a kiss in pouring rain We got marrie...

Skin under sun Summer breeze, summer break Oh, I was young then Hadn't made my mistake Unaware of the fall Unaware of my fate There was peace in the valley 'Til I made my mistake Quick in the night As the storm took its shape Caught at the border A...

(Verse) Morning’s come you watch the red sun rise The LED still flickers in your eyes Oh you outta’ spare your face the razor Because no one’s gonna’ spare the time for you. No one’s gonna’ watch you as you go From a house you didn’t build and can’t control...

Occident out on the weekend That's the way that we relax English Breakfast tastes like Darjeeling But she's too cute to even ask Blake's got a new face (Blake's got a new face) Nastiness will cause your doom Turn and walk back to your room The prece...

Ottoman couch, how handsome your furniture Lovelier now, but dressed for a funeral Begging you to sit for a portrait on the wall To hang in the dark of some parliamentary hall Elegant clothes, you want to be seen with her Under your tweeds you sweat like...

Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? I've seen those english dramas too They're cruel So if there's any other way To spell the word It's fine with me, with me Why would you speak to me that way Especially when I always said that I Haven't got the words for...

When I was young, I was told I'd find One rich man in ten has a satisfied mind And I’m the one 100 to one says I wouldn't react But I'm the 1 in 100 who would swing right back Yes, I’m the one Thousands of steps and staircases to climb Thousands of me...

Every dollar counts And every morning hurts We mostly work to live Until we live to work She said, “You know There’s nowhere else to go” But changing roles It struck me that the two of us could run Worlds away from cars And all the stars and bars...

The snow fell last night Your flight couldn't leave Come back to the bed Let's take this reprieve It felt like the end The end's been delayed You're here in my arms So what should I say? The words of a song The prayers that we pray The lock on the d...

Every time I see you in the world You always step to my girl Back, back, way back I used to front like Angkor Wat Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam While home in New York was champagne and disco Tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco But actually...

[Chorus] I-I-I, things have never been stranger I-I-I, things are gonna stay strange I-I-I, I remember life as a stranger I-I-I, but things change [Verse 1] Another night indoors, another sign of life-ife Wobbling up through the floor You and Kidada...

Sunflower in the morning Standing in the garden All before you wake No power can compel you Out into the daylight Let that evil wait Strange thought upon the pillow: “What day demands a date?” Well I don’t know Sunflower in the evening Standing in...

I think I take myself too serious It's not that serious Alone in someone's bedroom, she firmly took my hand The isolation ended, I began to understand In the ping-pong match of constant desire I was never gonna get ahead 'Cause I was looking in the mirr...

Unsentimental Traveling around Sure of myself Sure of it now But You were standing there so close to me Like the future was suppose to be In the aisles of the Grocery In the blocks uptown I remember Remember well But if I'd forgotten Could you tel...

A devastating backstroke All the way from France With shiny, shiny cufflinks A shirtsleeve to enhance The pin-striped men of morning Are coming for to dance With pure Egyptian Cotton The kids don't stand a chance You criticize the practice By murdering their...

Baby, I know pain is as natural as the rain I just thought it didn't rain in California Baby, I know love isn't what I thought it was 'Cause I've never known a love like this before ya Baby, I know dreams tend to crumble at extremes I just thought our dr...

Baby, I love you But that's not enough And pulling away has been unbearably buff I ran up the mountain Out of your sight The snow on the peak was just unbearably white The city was freezing An elegant flow The wind at the doorway was unbearably cold...

Got a little soul The world is a cold, cold place to be Want a little warmth But who’s going to save a little warmth for me [Pre-Chorus] We know the fire awaits unbelievers all of the sinners the same Girl you and I will die unbelievers bound to the tra...

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 that way Don't you know That your life could be lost? Out of Cape Cod tonight Walcott The Bottleneck Is a shit-show Hyann...

[Verse 1: Ezra Koenig & Danielle Haim] We go together like sound and sight Black and white, day and night We go together like left and right Oh, we go together We go together like give and take Pains and aches, real and fake We go together, don't be...

Then it’s your business A modern piece of glasswork Down on the corner that You walk each day in passing The elderly sales clerk With eyes full of suspicion The whole corporation’s giving it permission The little stairway A little bit of carpet A pair of mirr...

Only in the way you want it Only on the day you want it Only with the understanding Every single day you want it City with the weight upon it City in the way you want it City with the safety of a never-ending blessing on it We worshipped you Your red...

Oh, sweet thing, Zion doesn’t love you, Babylon don’t love you, But you love everything. Oh, you saint, America don’t love you, So I could never love you, In spite of everything. In the dark of this place, there’s the glow of your face, There’s the...

You take your time, Young Lion You take your time, Young Lion You take your time, Young Lion You take your time, Young Lion