Vampire Weekend - Ice Cream Piano

"Fuck the world"
You said it quiet
No one could hear you
No one but me
Cynical, you can't deny it

You don't want to win this war
'Cause you don't want the peace

Armistice, we never tried it
You're a soldier
I'm police
Listen, baby
We can't deny it

You don't want to win this war
'Cause you don't want the peace

The word was weaponized
As soon as it had passed your lips
I am a gentle man
I refuse to show my gentleness

"Fuck around and find out"
The angry child recites this every day
The universe will pry out
The truth, which is you've got nothing to say

In dreams, I scream, "Piano"
I softly reach the high note
The world don't recognize
A singer who won't sing

You talk of Serbians
Whisper, "Kosovar Albanians"
The boy's Romanian
Third-generation Transylvanian

I see the vampires walking
Don't be gripped by fear, you aren't next
We're all the sons and daughters
Of vampires who drained the old world's necks

In dreams, I scream, "Piano"
I softly reach the high note
The world don't recognize
A singer who won't sing

In dreams, I scream, "Piano"
I softly reach the high note
The world don't recognize
A singer who won't sing

Vampire Weekend - Hope

The bull has gored the matador
The U.S. Army won the war
The meaning died in metaphor
I hope you let it go

The phoenix burned but did not rise
Now half the body's paralyzed
There's no one left to criticize
I hope you let it go

I hope you let it go
Hope you let it go
The enemy's invincible
I hope you let it go

The prophet said we'd disappear
The prophet's gone but we're still here
His prophecy was insincere
I hope you let it go

The righteous rage was foolish pride
The conquerors did not divide
The call keeps coming from inside
I hope you let it go

The embassy's abandoned now
The flag that flew is on the ground
The painting burned, the statue drowned
I hope you let it go

The moving train accelerates
It's always fast and always late
It never leaves the Empire
State
I hope you let it go

I hope you let it go
I hope you let it go
Our enemy's invincible
I hope you let it go

The sentencing was overturned
The killer freed, the court adjourned

Vampire Weekend - Prep-School Gangsters

It's just something people say
They don't really feel that way
Prep-school gangsters make the call
As the summer turns to fall

I was tired but waking up
I was dying to test my luck
Prep-school gangsters barred the way
There was nothing I could say

Call me jealous, call me mad
Now I've got the thing you had
Somewhere in your family tree
There was someone just like me

I was only walking by
Didn't mean to catch your eye
It's just something people say
You could lose some teeth that way

Call it business, call it war
Cutting class through revolving doors
Yours was better, mine was worse
'Til I took on the fifth-gen curse

Call me jealous, call me mad
Now I've got the thing you had
Somewhere in your family tree
There was someone just like me

It's just something people say
It's just something people say
It's just something people say
It's just something people say
It's just something people say