Vampire Weekend - Hudson Lyrics

This song is great...Feels like Nolan's Dunkirk...Has the clock ticking sound too.

I sat in the rain at Riverside Park, eating falafel from Jerusalem and listening to this the day I saw VW in NYC. It felt all too appropriate.

oo yay "Some will roam their ruined home, rejoicing 'til the end" sounds fun

"This song is eerie"
Yeah, probably because it's named after a guy that got mutinied and left in a icy bay by his ship crew, never to be seen again.

The lyrics for all who want them


Hudson died in Hudson Bay
The water took its victim's name
The river's rise told Riverside to change their names again


A stranger walked in through the door
Said all apartments are pre-war
We laughed and asked him for his name
He stayed until the end


We watched the Germans play the Greeks
We marked the ninety nine year lease
Our fathers signed
Which I declined to try and comprehend


Over and over again, all these never-ending visions
Over and over again like a prize that's changing hands
The time has a come
The clock is such a drag
All you who changed your stripes can wrap me in the flag


The legendary wooden gate
The first established real estate
Is lost in time like all the crimes
That won this pleasant land


Over and over again, all these never-ending visions
Over and over again like a prize that's changing hands
The time has a come
The clock is such a drag
All you who changed your stripes can wrap me in the flag


Hudson died on Hudson Bay
But I was born on Sutton Place
The rising tide helped me decide to change my name again
Some men tend to linger on and some make haste from Babylon
Some will roam their ruined home, rejoicing 'til the end


Over and over again, all these never-ending visions
Over and over again like a prize that's changing hands
The time has come
The clock is such a drag
All you who changed your stripes can wrap me in the flag


The lines are drawn
The map is such a drag
All you who changed your stripes can wrap me in the flag

Anyone ever transcribe this? I would kill for a bass tab

Spooky, indeed

1:42
Hey, that sounds like the metal clanging sound you hear in some Donkey Kong Country songs (like Mining Melancholy).

K-leb God Mining Melancholy is a masterpiece

Also Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

I have a dog named Hudson!

thanks.

keep him away from any unnamed bays

Wow I never thought I'd hear a creepy Vampire Weekend song. What a cool surprise. It's nice but I'm glad this is rare for them.

Daniel Alvarez it is

Lmao watch the new album is full of creepy songs

For a band called Vampire Weekend, I would've thought there'd be more "creepy" songs by them.

I'm not
I want more of this.
This is my TOP 3 their favourite song

such an eerie song

Sounds low key good.

this song creeps me out in a good way

Undderatet siink

this is dumb ur gay

Alexander Hamilton.

sounds like death

That's why its good.

I love this song

this is hauntingly numbing

it's like they went more spiritual in this song

this is hauntingly numbing