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The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

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Vampire Weekend

The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

Release date: 2007

From Vampire WeekendTrack 114:03

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Lyrics

The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

A devastating backstroke
All the way from France
With shiny, shiny cufflinks
A shirtsleeve to enhance
The pin-striped men of morning
Are coming for to dance
With pure Egyptian cotton
The kids don't stand a chance
You criticize the practice
By murdering their plants
Ignoring all the history
Denying them romance
The pin-striped men of morning
Are coming for to dance
Forty-million dollars
The kids don't stand a chance
I didn't like the business
But that was at first glance
Your pillow feels so soft now
But still you must advance
The pin-striped men of morning
The partners in the dance
The paper's shot to pieces
The kids don't stand a chance

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11

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2007

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Vampire Weekend — Hope (from Only God Was Above Us) [7:58]
Vampire Weekend — Prep-School Gangsters (from Only God Was Above Us) [3:49]
Vampire Weekend — Mary Boone (from Only God Was Above Us) [4:26]
Vampire Weekend — Gen-X Cops (from Only God Was Above Us) [3:48]
Vampire Weekend — The Surfer (from Only God Was Above Us) [5:47]
Vampire Weekend — Connect (from Only God Was Above Us) [5:10]
Vampire Weekend — Classical (from Only God Was Above Us) [4:20]
Vampire Weekend — Pravda (from Only God Was Above Us) [4:11]
Vampire Weekend — Capricorn / Gen-X Cops
Vampire Weekend — 2021 (In the Space Between Two Pieces of Wood) [20:21]
Vampire Weekend — 2021 (January 5th, To Be Exact) [20:21]
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Vampire Weekend — 2021 (from Father of the Bride) [1:39]
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Vampire Weekend — Married in a Gold Rush (feat. Danielle Haim) (from Father of the Bride) [3:42]
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Vampire Weekend — We Belong Together (feat. Danielle Haim) (from Father of the Bride) [3:11]
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