Vampire Weekend - California English lyrics

rate me

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Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love <br />

Never really heard you speak that way, it’s unworthy of… <br />

Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt <br />

Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club <br />

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Someone took a trip before you came to ski in the Alps <br />

Your father moved across the country <br />

Just to sunburn his scalp <br />

Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say <br />

Living like the French Connection, but we’ll die in LA <br />

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Blasted from a disconnected light switch <br />

Through the condo that they’ll never finish <br />

Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish <br />

And through your brain to California English <br />

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No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there ‘til May <br />

Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK <br />

Waiting with the wind against your face <br />

And gel in your hair <br />

Shivering in little undershirts, but don’t seem to care <br />

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Blasted from a disconnected light switch <br />

Through the condo that they’ll never finish <br />

Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish <br />

And through your brain to California English <br />

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Sweet carob rice cake <br />

She don’t care how the sweets taste <br />

Fake Philly cheese steak <br />

But she use real toothpaste <br />

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Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work <br />

If it just makes you worse <br />

Would you loose all of you faith in the good Earth <br />

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And if it’s all a curse <br />

And we’re just getting worse <br />

Baby, please don’t lose your faith in the good earth <br />

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Blasted from a disconnected light switch <br />

Through the condo that they’ll never finish <br />

Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish <br />

And through your brain to California English

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