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Walcott

Release date: 2007

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Walcott is a vacation song dressed up as an escape narrative. The track cycles through a single, insistent plea: leave Cape Cod. The repetition builds a kind of manic energy, as if the speaker is trying to convince both Walcott and himself that departure is the only rational choice. Vampire Weekend layer this urgency over bright, propulsive instrumentation, the music at odds with the desperation of the lyrics. The geography matters. Cape Cod, Hyannisport, Wellfleet, Provincetown, New Jersey: these are specific places, specific constraints. The song names them not as destinations but as things to escape from, each location a small failure or disappointment. There's a sharpness to the dismissals, a youthful impatience with the provincial and the familiar. Yet the song never quite explains why departure is so urgent, which is perhaps the point. Sometimes the need to leave is its own justification.

"Walcott" is a track by Vampire Weekend, released 2007. The track is 3:42 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Vampire Weekend.

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Lyrics

Walcott

Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, Mystic seaport is that way
Don't you know that your life would be lost
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, the bottleneck is a shit show
Hyannisport is a ghetto
Out of Cape Cod tonight
The lobster's claw is sharp as knives
Evil feasts on human lives
The Holy Roman Empire roots for you
Walcott, all the way to New Jersey
All the way to the Garden State
Out of Cape Cod tonight
Walcott, fuck the women from Wellfleet
Fuck the bears out in Provincetown
Heed my words and take flight
Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?
Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod
Out of Cape Cod tonight?

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Walcott

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