Vampire Weekend

Welcome back, Vampire Weekend. I have missed you so. You have changed your sound slightly. But only barely. Still recognizable, still you. Seems to me like you have widened your influences. I want to hear the rest of the album. I don't want to wait till January 12, 2010 to see if you still got it. Until then, I'll listen to Horchata. Your new song, released to download for free (that's a link - click on it) on your website from October 6th, will be given a chance beside my other new downloads and we'll see if it brings me in. If you ever get back from the West Coast to which you have abandoned me, I may even come visit you at a show.

Until then, here are the Vampire Weekend 'Horchata' lyrics to distract me.

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

(Whoaaaaa ooooh)

In December drinking horchata

Look down your glasses at that Aranciata

With lips and teeth to ask how my day went

Boots and fists to pound on the pavement

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten

Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

(Whoaaaaaa ooooh)

You'd remember drinkin horchata

You'd still enjoy it with your foot on masada

Winter's cold is too much to handle

Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten

Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

Ooh you had it but oh no you lost it

Lookin back you shouldn't have fought it

In December, drinkin horchata

I'd look psychotic in a balaclava

Winter's cold is too much to handle

Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals

Years go by and hearts start to harden

Those palms and firs that grew in your garden

Falling down and nearing the rose beds

The roots are shooting up through the tool shed

Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went

Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten

Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

Oh you had it but oh no you lost it

You understood so you shouldn't have fought it

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten

Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten

Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

~Ferdinando