| Vampire Weekend – Hannah Hunt Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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One thing to add is that on VW's official album lyrics, "In Santa Barbara, Hannah cried, ' I miss those freezing beaches.'" This distinction is important here since Hannah is not only unhappy, but also missing the way things were back at their relationship's earlier days (perhaps back on the East Coast where they visited a beach on a cold day). Hannah is realizing the turning point of the relationship and unwilling to remedy it, tears up the New York times up into pieces, where as the narrator is eager to nurture it by buying kindling for the fire. A truly beautiful song and one of my favorites from the new album. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I found the interview where Ezra talks about a 'believer' always being an 'unbeliever' of another faith. He also talks about his dislike of false dichotomies being presented when it comes to religion, politics, etc. I think he's trying to highlight the conundrum of finding faith/spirituality in a world where religious beliefs can be polarizing. Koenig explained the song's meaning to NME: "There's something very powerful about religious imagery," he said, "and I've always been very interested in various religions, whether it was the one I was raised in or ones that I experienced myself. I don't like to be dismissive in any way of religion. In some ways I feel very connected to it, some of the imagery in that song, talking about the fire, is something that I find powerful. Something that I started thinking about on the last record (was) how much I can't relate to any ways of thinking that divide the world into two distinct parts," he continued. "Whether that's atheism versus religion or Republican versus Democrat, there's all these false dichotomies in the world that can be very confusing when you're trying to make up your mind about how you feel about a situation. It's almost like a sports mentality, about being on one team or the other. That doesn't mean that I don't have my own deeply helf beliefs about things that I think are right or moral or true but - and it's only gotten worse as I've gotten older - I've always had this extreme dislike of these false choices that you're presented with, so in any situation I want to try to be open-minded and look for what you can learn from something. Even in that song, the idea of being an unbeliever can mean almost anything because everybody is an unbeliever to somebody else. It doesn't matter how fervently you believe in your faith, there's always going to be another faith that calls you an unbeliever. In any sort of multicultural society, it's something that people have to grapple with and figure out." |
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| Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I found the interview where Ezra talks about a 'believer' always being an 'unbeliever' of another faith. He also talks about his dislike of false dichotomies being presented when it comes to religion, politics, etc. I think he's trying to highlight the conundrum of finding faith/spirituality in a world where religious beliefs can be polarizing. | |
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