| Vampire Weekend – Ottoman Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| My interpretation seems that this is about death. A funeral, which they stated. The portrait in the hall... That would be the deceased person. Today is for the person who died. "The laid it out for you" being laid out is being killed, but in this sense it means death. The women and bells ringing, could be the choir or it could be angels. The cards and the time it took... Hallmark makes grief cards. I think sweating like a teenager is because this is the song writers first experience with death, someone he was close to is gone, so unnatural etc. the connection to cape cod kwassa kwassa just was a perfect line to this song, but it means something totally different | |
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