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I don't know why it's bothering me so much, but does anyone know, or can guess what this song means in all seriousness? I've been pondering for days.

It's called "The Kids Don't Stand A Chance"

A devastating backstroke
All the way from France
With shiny, shiny cuff links
A shirtsleeve to enhance

The pin-striped men in mourning
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 in mourning
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 in mourning
The partners in the dance
The paper's shot to pieces
The kids don't stand a chance

Help?

Vampire Weekend, love them. My guess is that the song is about life at Columbia and the struggle put fourth to choose a career. There is a great pressure to take a job in finance which is symbolizing the men of morning with expensive shirts and cuff links. Jobs are dangled in front of millions of college students who "don't stand a chance" but to suck it up and take a job.


Now that I think about it, some lines can be perceived multiple different ways. Another line that I read and thought of was a drug trade, mentioning opium fields and "ignoring all the history" that drug has been around for quite some time. Maybe the song is portraying that kids don't feel like they have a choice "the kids don't stand a chance" and only fall back on the choice of doing drugs with the intention of getting money by selling or trading "forty million dollars"

Hope this helps you out.

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