| Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand a Chance Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So I wrote this story, it's how I interpret the story of the song. Told from the perspective of one of the kids. Very literal. The lot’s been there for as long as I can remember. Always a block away from my house, almost hidden by a wall of bushes. A getaway. I think my parents said it was there since they were teenagers. All the local kids would race to it after school to play baseball. We used chalk to mark the wall, it’s how we knew if we got a single, double, etc. More baseballs must’ve hit that wall than the local field, Fenway. For the older kids, they used a ladder hidden by vines to climb up onto the buildings. They’d use it for romantic dates, under the stars, looking out upon the city. Then they came. Like a devastating backstroke, leaving businesses in their path, ignoring people, willing to squash people to climb the corporate ladder. Some France based restaurant franchise. Wanting to use the lot for the newest installment in the chain. Businessmen came, classy, cuff links and Egyptian cotton shirtsleeves. They looked at the lot, everyday, arguing in French. We knew what was happening thanks to a translator. The men were angry, disappointed, almost mourning, because their business had flopped in France, and they were hoping to revive the chain by moving to America. They were dancing the terrible dance of business. Us kids didn’t stand a chance. We still went and played baseball, every afternoon, and the men watched us. They shouted stuff at us. We don’t know what they were saying, but we knew it wasn’t nice. I’m sure they were criticizing us for how we used the lot, as a baseball field. The next day, we got there, and the bushes were gone. So were the vines, and the ladder. Ashes were all that remained. They burned the damn things. Trying to break our spirit. They ignored that it might mean something to us, they didn’t bother to learn about it, or the teenager’s romantic getaway part of it. We didn’t see the business men for a week. But they came back, doing the dance of business and trade. They were offering the owner of the lot 40 million dollars for the lot. We didn’t stand a chance. I didn’t like the business to start off. But then I hated them with a passion. I wanted to just drift to sleep, hoping I’d wake up and it was just a dream. But I had to try something. The business men came back one more time. Partners in the dance of business. I had started a petition to save the lot, but I ran into one of the business men, and he ripped it up. We didn’t stand a chance. |
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| Smash Mouth – Who's There Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| As in, "Who's there" ahem, the song title? | |
| Smash Mouth – Who's There Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's about childhood innocence, the children, still young and innocent, haven't been fed the propaganda that all aliens are gonna kill us, they, in their innocence, don't worry about what the aliens will do, but in fact, who they are........? | |
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