As a young girl, Louis Vuitton
With your mother, on the sandy lawn
As a sophomore, with reggaeton
And the linens you're sittin' on

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want to fuck?
Like you know I do
Like you know I do

This feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too
Feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel

Can you stay up to see the dawn?
In the colors of Benetton

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want ta?
Like you know I do
Like you know I do

It feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too
Feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want ta?
Like you know I do
Like you know I do



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Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa song meanings
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  • +2
    General Comment:I think I might have found the song that inspired Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. Listen to it carefully and you'll notice that the guitar sequences are very similar.

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    Flag awkwardDynamicon November 15, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I always picture some girl from the show The O.C or Gossip Girl and how they always get laid. Guess my interpretation was right.
    Flag Defanieon April 19, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I always thought this was sort of an impressionist take on uncomfortable conversations with his dad or both parents about their "wild" youth... He may have some disdain for their experience of what was "exotic" as a couple of rich white kids in Cape Cod in the '80's.

    The singer is not old enough to directly remember all of these 80's consumer culture references nor have heard Peter Gabriel's 2 when it was on the radio. My take is that he's getting an X-rated trip down memory lane from a parent: "As a young girl" ... "With your mother" ... "the linens you're sitting on" from the same voice that has asked him countless times if his bed was made or his sweater was on.

    I believe he is making fun of his parents' "culture" and taste in music but admitting to being influenced by it, maybe as his inspiration to explore rhythms from other parts of the worlds.

    ...Or, on the spicier side, I have considered a similar interpretation except that he's banging his Mom's friend in the parents' Cape Cod summer home, from whom he heard stories about his parents. That's more salacious, but I tend to believe the former.
    Flag boobahpapaon December 10, 2010   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion:this is my favourite Vampire Weekend song by far, i just love the lyrics, the music, the video... everything!
    Flag sarahgillbornon December 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i live wellesley mass and basically everyone here owns a house on cape cod. i never wanted to go to the cape when i was little because it was boring and all my parents did was hang out with their rich friends and admire each other's rich beach houses. everyone my age felt the same way about the cape; "how unnatural" it was to be encouraged to wear lilly pulitzer and j crew and sit around and soak up everyone's snobbiness. i think this song is pointing out the ridiculousness of how showy everyone with money acts among wealthy friends. in high school my friends and i would get sick of watching our parents act like this, so we would leave them to their wine parties and we would get drunk on nauset beach lol
    Flag s0daAshon October 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone think there is any significance to the way the "do you want ta?" lyric changes each time it's sung? First he actually says "do you want to fuck?" Then it changes to "do you want ta?" - very precise and articulated. The last time he says it, it's smoother, flows more and sounds more like "do you wanna?"
    Flag danischweitzeron July 13, 2010   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion:i love the hot chip & peter gabriel cover of this
    "and it feels so unnatural, to sing your own name"
    hahaha
    Flag thespiderslaughon June 22, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I like that this song has that 60s California beach vibe to it, talking about a prep boy trying to get laid...it fits.

    "Feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too"...I'm a huge, huge Peter Gabriel fan, but he doesn't really have songs you want to have sex to. "Shaking the Tree" and "Games without Frontiers" have good beat but...no, thank you.

    The first part, "As a young girl, Luis Vuitton". What woman has Luis Vuitton, let alone a young girl? So she has uber rich parents.

    "As a sophomore, reggaeton"...Now she's older, trying to have her own personality, trying to be cool. Honestly, I don't know affluent white girl who actually likes reggaeton, but I know a few who play Daddy Yankee or whatever trying to look kinda hip and rebellious.

    "Is your bed made? Is your sweater on?" - I see a girl just like on the video, a prim coed.
    Flag hollyholyon June 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think that this is just about a personal experience.
    Maybe like a first time thing
    and how the whole situation is uncomfortable
    and the random questions of the made bed are said to
    make it more comfortable.

    His memories are of the uncomfortableness and Peter Gabriel
    possibly in the background?

    I'm just poking guesses however.
    Flag greenkat742on April 03, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Anyone know where the beach in the video for the song is?
    Flag declan8on March 11, 2010   Link

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