Vampire Weekend - California English lyrics

Wouldn't ever gag you with a spoon
My only true love
Never really heard you speak that way
It's unworthy of
Funny how that little college
Girl called language corrupt
Funny how the other private schools
Had no Hapa Club
Someone took a trip before you came
To ski in the Alps
Your father moved across the country
Just to sunburn his scalp
Contra Costa, Contra Mundum
Contradict what I say
Living like the French Connection
But we'll die in LA

Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English

No one sit's inside a freezing flat
And stays there 'til May
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs
To surf the UK
Waiting with the wind against your face
And gel in your hair
Shivering in little undershirts
But don't seem to care

Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English

Sweet carob rice cake
She don't care how the sweets taste
Fake Philly cheese steak but
She use real toothpaste
'Cause if that Tom's don't work
If it just makes you worse
Would you lose all of your
Faith in the good earth?
And if it's all a curse
And we're just getting worse baby, please
Don't lose your faith in the good earth

Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English