Vampire Weekend - White Sky Lyrics
An ancient business
A modern piece of glasswork
Down on the corner that
You walk each day in passing
The elderly sales clerk won't eye us with suspicion
A little stairway
A little piece of carpet
A pair of mirrors that are facing one another
Out in both directions
A thousand little Julia's
That come together in the middle of Manhattan
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
Around the corner
The house that modern art built
A house for modern art to keep it out the closets
The people who might own it
The sins of pride and envy
And on the second floor The Richard Serra Skatepark
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
Sit on the park wall
Ask all the right questions
"Why are the horses racing taxis in the winter?"
Look up at the buildings
Imagine who might live there
Imagining your Wolfords in a ball upon the sink there
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
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Vampire Weekend White Sky Comments
here from radio silence ❤️
Pure happiness uncorked!
Woah this cover of Crazy Love II is really good!
UUU A AUAU UU U U
Sorry for the 136 people who disliked this 2.9 K people who like this song against 136 people who disliked this song.
Excuse me but i remember years ago a music video to this song???? What happened!!!??? IT WAS SO GOOD !
E-Dubble Freestyle Friday #2
I love this song.
man this is so special, like has anyone ever listened to such a song before? thats what makes up really good music to me
IT'S A SAD SHAME YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A GREAT SONG LIKE THIS ON ANY YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO SO CALLED "ROCK" RADIO STATIONS!🤔 THANK GOD WE HAVE YOUTUBE TO ENJOY THIS TUNE!🙂😀
the control of ezra’s voice is incredible and i love it
Large happiness, thank you vampire weekend
Obnoxious, but consistent.
*This is profound in ways we don't quite understand yet. The future will judge us kinda because of songs like these.* #HoaxWars
edubble anyone?
whats the name of his song with this beat please?
@Dareos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je4GNZYF9cs&list=PLf2RZ3cHgMo4r8CaQkaPclkeQDsft04GG&index=2
Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped into the room...
This song brings me such joy, I can't even explain
Wonderful song, wonderful interacting guitar arpeggios ...reminds me of some of the stuff on Paul Simon's Gracelands album.
Sooooooooooo Paul Simon
This song is pretty bad. The melody is a little catchy but nothing in this song is good in my opinion. .5/5
YGOEnthusiast i disagree, but respect your opinion. i think the control of his voice in the melody is super good, but the lyrics are a little boring to be fair. i say 10/10.
Fucking love this tune laaaaads
here from gossip girl
Gossip Girl's soundtrack is truly a gift. 🙌👐
thank you HAIM for showing me this band!
love this song!
This song makes me so fuckin happy
I usually don't mind Vampire Weekend's music, but this song genuinely makes my blood boil. I hate it with a burning passion. It's that fucking chorus, probably. Jesus, I want to strangle a puppy right now.
Still here 2019.
This song is about sex. Specifically public discreet sex. The chorus/humming musically echoes the moaning of orgasming.
ooo aooo aooo aooaooooo
Here because I've been listening to this album since 09
I love your band but I'm a little too young for the f word
12 points from Ukraine <3
Who is here because of Petruska? 😂
I am here after seeing their Glastonbury 2019 set ;-)
Petruska lets go
I like how they cover this Paul Simon song.
Try the white sky crazy love mashup. It's great 😁
Kristen looks so Aryan Fresh up tough up + !
listened to this in the middle of a blizzard, pretty sick dude
Forever and always in love with this song
Favourite song of my favourite album by them
I used to be the god damned life of the party playing Paul Simon songs and mashing up the lyrics with Koenig's stuff. You ought to sing this over the second and third verses of "Crazy Love Vol. II" - it's scary how well it works.
the gayest song evur x3
Here because of Office Depot
1:04 when you bust a nut and she keeps sucking
oooOoOoOoOOOOooOoh
You made my fucking day
i remember when this came outi was in hs , it was on mtv (album) circa 2010
Still great in 2018
This song is fucking trash, i cant believe this even exists
An ancient business
A modern piece of glass work
Down on the corner that you walk each day in passing
The elderly sales clerk won't eye us with suspicion
The whole, immortal corporation's given its permission
[Pre-Chorus]
A little stairway
A little piece of carpet
A pair of mirrors that
Are facing one another
Out in both directions
A thousand little Julias
That come together
In the middle of Manhattan
[Chorus]
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
[Verse 3]
Around the corner
The house that modern art built
I ask for modern art
To keep it out the closets
The people who might own it
The sins of pride and envy
And on the second floor
The Richard Serra Skate Park
[Chorus]
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
[Verse 4]
Sit on the park wall
Ask all the right questions
Why are the horses racing taxis in the winter?
Look up at the buildings imagine who might live there
Imagining your wolfords in a ball upon the sink there
[Chorus]
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
1:04 is the best shizz I've heard in a while.
This is a beautiful song. I love it no matter how much I listen to it.
June 2018
Mariana G. July.
I love Vampire Weekend but listening to them makes me feel like I'm a moody fourteen year old, watching my mediocre friends drink bad vodka on a beach
Marina Solstice Goddamn what a beautifully specific comment
Makes me think of being in high school junior year and watching older friends get drunk in a basement.
Sounds pretty rad
haha genius
I was trying to decide if I like this, and after about 18 times I told myself I better click the like button
wow that is an exciting story of indecision. You should write a script and sent it Hollywood to make a movie about it.
@Yappy Raccoon Lol what the heck
I don’t get why the majority of people haven’t heard of this band
D3STROYER No.1 because they were overrated hipster garbage. And like anything worshiped by hipsters, it only sticks around long enough to catch on, then everyone pretends they never liked them later. This is the power of Pitchfork. They're releasing a new album this year. I guarantee PF shits on it.
BULLSHIT
We will see. PF historically has never given good ratings to a legacy. They are entirely all about the new hot thing. Check out any band 2000's to 2010's. Their 3rd, 4th releases get shit on. That is the real bullshit.
@Alien Isotope Wait, do you think they're overrated hipster garbage or a legacy? Genuinely curious.
Cuz a lot of their fans are prolly in like their 30s now
Crazy Love, Vol. III. A worthy interpolation of a Graceland classic..
There's another song called "Proof" off of 1990's Rhythm of the Saints record which sounds even more like this. Just when you thought it couldn't get more Paul Simon-like...
These guys have such a crisp sound
KrabFish I agree. I like their music a lot.
You can thank Rostam for that probably
@uchiha gaeshi and Ezzy
Their music is like being on the beach in summer alone with the waves crashing on the sand and also walking around a college campus in the fall with the autumn air filling your lungs
"it all comes at once" ;) OoOoOoOooooh
I NEED A NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!
🏹 ♡
You got one
When I worked at panera bread, the customers would complain and ask us to change the song at 1:04
I always hated that part. Your Panera Bread was scum.
Wait... Why??
@Stacy Vega look, I realize we all have different tastes in music. But you don't have to be such bitch about it.
this song should become the US anthem
VW seems way too hipster for Panera Bread lol
(Coming from a Vampire Werkend fanboy ;P)
I always thought this was one of the best melodies ever sung, such happy feelings
WHAT AMAZING SONG!!!
Any other equally catchy songs by vw anyone can recommend?
Diplomats Son
Cousins, horchata, holiday, mansard roof
All of them
seriously ALL OF THEM
california english pt 1 and 2
Sounds like Paul Simon.. If he were cool.
Model Jet Juggernaut --he is cool, this is a total graceland rip off, like most of their shit is
This also reminds me of Pete Townshend's Let My Love Open the Door
damn dude, i could not have described it better, although i dont think paul simon is uncool. 😛
Yes👍
Anyone who knows this reference to this song is a god "I Know"
Freestyle Friday #2
1:04 sounds like tarzan repetitively getting his nuts slammed
and liking it
This brings me back wow 🔥
Still good in 2017
What about 2018?
Vincentvancraig Pretentious!!
@Vincentvancraig no kidding, look at Mozart. Some of my favs go back to the 80s (newwave). 1992 was a good year for music, MBV, Curve, MBM to name-drop a few.
Still good in 2019
Clare Annette agreed
sick fucken quality
Nice beat that is the good thing about vampire weekend they match the beat with the melody
Ezra Koenig is a gift to man
And especially so to women!
@Sophie ReedWhoahhhhhh....
I broke the replay button
Yup it is fantastic
This is fantastic 😍❤️👏🏻
🙌❤️