Vampire Weekend

A-Punk

Well, seeing this is a site all about a Vampire themed high variance slot, we thought it’s be a good idea to include a Vampire Weekend Song: A-Punk. Ay ay ay ay! I want to play the drums like that!

Vampire Weekend is rock band from New York, formed in 2006 and currently signed to Columbia Records. The band was stareted by lead vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij, drummer Chris Tomson, and bassist Chris Baio. Batmanglij left the band in 2016.

Their 1st album Vampire Weekend (2008) with singles “A-Punk” and “Oxford Comma” was hailed as one of the great debut albums. The next album, Contra (2010), was also well received and stormed in at number one on the US Billboard 200.

Lyrics to A-Punk

Johanna drove slowly into the city
The Hudson River all filled with snow
She spied the ring on His Honor’s finger, oh oh oh

A thousand years in one piece of silver
She took it from his lily white hand
Showed no fear, she’d seen the thing
In the Young Men’s Wing at Sloan-Kettering

Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Ay ay ay ay! Ay ay ay!

His Honor drove southward seeking exotica
Down to the Pueblo huts of New Mexico
Cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas, oh oh oh

I saw Johanna down in the subway
She took an apartment in Washington Heights
Half of the ring lies here with me
But the other half’s at the bottom of the sea

Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh
Ay ay ay ay! Ay ay ay ay!