Boston (Ladies of Cambridge) Lyrics

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Cover art for Boston (Ladies of Cambridge) lyrics by Vampire Weekend

They went to Columbia, in NYC, so they would have to take the 'Chinatown bus' (the Fung Wah bus) for trips up to Boston.

"Ladies of Cambridge" is both a reference to the ee cummings poem and to taking trips up from NYC to meet Harvard girls.

cos when you left my room to go to the kitchen i imagined that you were dead a morbid steak runs through the whole of my family but for you i could put it to rest

This is a funny stanza that speaks to the general stereotypical dispositions of New Englanders. People from New England are always thought of as gloomy, pessimistic, cranky...

...I think we're just intelligent, purposeful realists...