Vampire Weekend - Step lyrics

Every time I see you in the world
You always step to my girl

Back, back
Way back I used to front like Angkor Wat
Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
While home in New York
Was champagne and disco
Tapes from LA slash San Francisco
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
Your girl was in Berkeley
With her Communist reader
Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman
I was a hoarder, but girl, that was back then

The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about? I feel it in my bones
I feel it in my bones
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
Such a modest mouse i can't do it alone
I can't do it alone

Every time I see you in the world
You always step to my girl

Ancestors told me that their girl was better
She's richer than Croesus
She's tougher than leather
I just ignore all the tales of her past life
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
And punks who would laugh when
They saw us together
Well, they didn't know how to
Dress for the weather
I can still see them there, huddled on Astor
Snow falling slow to the sound of the master

The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about? I feel it in my bones
I feel it in my bones
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
Such a modest mouse i can't do it alone
I can't do it alone

Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
Age is an honor, it's still not the truth
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
You cursed the sun when it
Stepped to your girl
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
The truth is she doesn't need
Me to protect her we know the true death
The true way of all flesh
Everyone's dying, but girl
You're not old yet

Gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about? I feel it in my bones
I feel it in my bones
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
Such a modest mouse i can't do it alone
I can't do it alone
Gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about? I feel it in my bones
I feel it in my bones
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
Such a modest mouse i can't do it alone
I can't do it alone

Every time I see you in the world
You always step to my girl