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 lily white hand
Showed no fear she’d seen the thing
In the young men’s wing at Sloan-Kettering
CHORUS
Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh!
His honor drove southward seeking exotica
Down to the Pueblo huts of New Mexico
Cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas
Oh oh oh
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
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 to the side,
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 hits 2006 and a list maker
Golds in the melody
You eat it to-go
Oh, you were born with ten fingers
and you’re gonna use em all.
Interest in girls as I discovered myself
If your odd-life was greater you’ll be toastin’ my health
If an interest in goats, you should be linin’ the walls
When your birth right is interest you can just accrue it all.
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
its a line thats always running
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
I can feel it coming,
You can turn your back on the biddlewood
you can turn your back on the biddlewood
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
its a line thats always running
me and my cousins and you and your cousins i can feel it coming
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California English – Vampire Weekend Lyrics
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 to ski in the Alps
Your father moved across the country
Just to sunburn his scalp
Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say
Living like the French Connection, but we’ll die in LA
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there ‘til May
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK
Waiting with the wind against your face
And gel in your hair
Shivering in little undershirts, but don’t seem to care
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
Sweet carob rice cake
She don’t care how the sweets taste
Fake Philly cheese steak
But she use real toothpaste
Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work
If it just makes you worse
Would you loose all of you faith in the good Earth
And if it’s all a curse
And we’re just getting worse
Baby, please don’t lose your faith in the good earth
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
