Vampire Weekend Reading and Leeds Festival

Festival, the weirdos come out to play. And they're all shouting at

the tree house. Hello! Welcome back. play. And they're all shouting at

the tree house. Hello! Welcome So much brilliant stuff to bring you.

If you're much brilliant stuff to bring you.

If wondering where Jen has gone, she is panicked about her meeting with

Paramore so she has gone to lie down. They take to the stage at nine

o'clock this evening. Now earlier on today at these boys have had a busy

week. Their album coming out this week. Twin Atlantic, earlier today.

# Enough is enough # I have to guts to say I still care # Can you hear

me? Here we go! # There's nothing wrong

with being a dreamer. # So where are you now?

# Oooh # Are you still out there? # Enough is enough # I'm not giving

up. # I miss the conversations between

us. # Where are you now? # There's

nothing wrong with being a dreamer. # So where are you now?

# Are you still out there? # Are you still out there? # I miss

the conversations between us. # Where are you now?

# I'm talking to liars and cheaters. # Where are you now? Thank you very

much! # We all feel the same.

# Woah. # Where's your fire tonight? # I want to believe.

# So I could be free! # So I could be free!

# There's nothing left to say. # Woah.

# Where's your fire tonight? # I want to believe!

# So I can be free. # So I can be free.

# So I can be free. # Yeah!

# So I can be free! # So I can be free! # So I can be

free! # So I can be free!

Thank you! Twin Atlantic from earlier today.

The new album is out now. It was out last week, in fact. We have got

another acoustic last week, in fact. We have got

you. This is all about big bands and all that. But it has introduced an

alternative stage over the last few years. It is a pleasure to welcome

Cait Tempest. This is your first festival. With the new album. How

did it go? It was good fun. It is a different kind of music than I

expect people to be into what the crowd really went for it. It was a

great feeling. This is Kate Tempest. # She was a smart kid # She moved up

to massage # She's happy # How to me more than the sum of your parts #

She's not reluctant to touch # She can't believe there are some who

have never been held in their lives # Don't want to do it forever # She

doesn't care how most people see her # Some don't understand.

# We all walk to our own beat. # He's the type to say, this is

reality. # He never listens # She is ready to

try # When he's holding her hand it feels like his hand # I never wanted

to be any other than the person that I am.

Thank you so much. Was that enjoyable? It was pretty nerve

wracking. On Radio 1 without playing the new track. It is good to get

stuff like that on to somewhere like Radio 1. I think it is very

important. Lyrical integrity, interesting lyrics. People saying

something in a beautiful way, I think people are ready to hear that.

It is six -- it is an exciting time to be a writer of any kind. Thank

you for having me, it means the world. Time for some music from the

main stage. Vampire Weekend back at Reading and here they are.

# Baby, baby, baby, baby ride on time

# Baby baby baby baby ride on Baby baby baby baby ride on

# Baby baby baby it's a light on Baby baby baby it's a lifetime

# Baby baby baby baby ride on Time, time, time, time, time

# Baby baby baby baby ride on time

# If Diane Young won't change your mind

# Baby, baby, baby, baby ride on time

# Baby baby baby baby ride on Baby baby baby baby ride on

# Baby baby baby it's a light on Baby baby baby it's a lifetime

# Baby baby baby baby ride on Time, time, time, time, time

# Baby baby baby baby ride on time

# Nobody knows what the future holds

# Said it's bad enough just getting old

# Live my life they say it's too fast

# You know I love the past cos I hate suspense

# If Diane Young won't change your mind

# Baby, baby, baby, baby ride on time. #

# Then it's your business A modern piece of glasswork

# Down on the corner that You walk each day in passing

# The elderly sales clerk With eyes full of suspicion

# The whole corporation's giving it permission

# A pair of mirrors that Are facing one another

# Out in both directions A thousand little Julias

# That come together In the middle of Manhattan

# You waited since lunch It all comes at once

Around the corner # The house that modern art built

# I ask for modern art To keep it out the closet

# The people who might own it The sins of pride and envy

# And on the second floor The Richard Serra Skate Park

# Waited since lunch It all comes at once

# Along the park walk Ask all of our questions

# While all the horses Race taxis in the winter

# Look up at the buildings Imagine who might live there

# Imagining you're walking On a bowl upon the sing there

excited. # But should I be?

# I know I love you. # It contains a little drop for me.

# See the sun go down. # The night is deep.

# We know the fire waits Unbelievers. # Bow to the tracks of

the train. # I know I love you.

# I'm not excited, but should I be? # Is this the fate that half of the

world has planned for me? # I know I love you. # And you love the sea. #

But what holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me #

I'm not excited, but should I be? # Is this the fate that half of the

world has planned for me? # I know I love you. # And you love the sea. #

But what holy water contains a little drop,

# Holiday, oh, holiday And the best one of the year

# Dozing off underneath my sheets while I cover both my ears

# But if I wait for a holiday Could it stop my fear?

# To go away on a summer's day never seemed so clear

# Holiday, still so far away Our republic on the beach

# I can't forget just how bad it gets

# But if I wait for a holiday Could it stop my fear?

# To go away on a summer's day never seemed so clear

# She'd never seen the word bombs blown up

# A T-shirt so lovely, it turned all the history books grey

# I got wheels, I got Cutter spray and a healthy sense of worth

# Half of me is the gasoline But the other half's the surf

# So if I wait for a holiday Could it stop my fear?

# To go away on a summer's day never seemed so clear. #

# 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

# 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

# I feel it in my bones I feel it in my bones

# I'm stronger now I'm ready for the house

# I can't do it alone I can't do it alone

# I just ignored all the tales of a past life

# 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

# I feel it in my bones I feel it in my bones

# I'm stronger now I'm ready for the house

# 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 honour 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

# The gloves are off the wisdom teeth are out

# I feel it in my bones I feel it in my bones

# I'm stronger now I'm ready for the house

# I can't do it alone I can't do it alone

# The gloves are off the wisdom teeth are out

# I feel it in my bones I feel it in my bones

# I'm stronger now I'm ready for the house

# 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. #

# You found a sweater on the ocean floor

# They're gonna find it if you didn't close the door

# You and the smart one sit outside of the site

# You, greatest hits 2006 Little listmaker

# You were born with ten fingers and you're gonna use them all

# Interest in colours I discover myself

# Me and my cousins and you and your cousins

# Me and my cousins You and your cousins

# You could turn your back on the bitter world

# Me and my cousins and you and your cousins

# Me and my cousins You and your cousins

# Me and my cousins and you and your cousins

# Me and my cousins You and your cousins

# Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK

# Waiting with the wind against your face

# 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

# She don't care how the sweets taste

# 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. #

# The Hudson River all filled with snow

# She spied the ring on his Honour's finger

# A thousand years in one piece of silver

# She took it from his lily-white hand

# Showed no fear she'd seen the thing

# In the young men's wing at Sloan-Kettering

# Look outside at the raincoats coming, say "Oh!"

# Eh, eh, eh, eh Eh, eh, eh

# His Honour drove southward seeking exotica

# Down to the pueblo huts of New Mexico

# Cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas

# She took an apartment in Washington Heights

# But the other half's at the bottom of the sea

# Look outside at the raincoats coming, say "Oh!"

# Eh, eh, eh, eh Eh, eh, eh

America don't love you. So I could never love you.

In spite of everything. I have the fear that I made some

mistakes. But I let it go.

You won't even say your name. You won't even say your name.

Who could ever live that way? The motherland don't love you.

So why love anything? All these heights don't love you.

And that's an awful shame. All these heights don't love you.

And I can't help but feel that I made some mistakes.

# Through the fire and through the flames

# Ut Deo # Ya hey

# Ya Hey # You won't even say your name

# Ya hey # Ut Deo

# Ya hey # Ya Hey

# Through the fire and through the flames

# You won't even say your name # Only "I am that I am"

# But who could ever live that way? # Ya hey

# Ya Hey # Ut Deo, Ya Hey

# Outside the tents, on the festival grounds

# As the air began to cool, and the sun went down

# My soul swooned, as I faintly heard the sound

# Through the fire and through the flames

# Ut Deo # Ya hey

# Ya Hey # You won't even say your name

# Ya hey # Ut Deo

# Ya hey # Ya Hey

# Through the fire and through the flames

# You won't even say your name # Only "I am that I am"

# But who could ever live that way? # Ya hey

# Ya Hey # Ut Deo, Ya Hey

# Through the fire and through the flames

# Only "I am that I am" # But who could ever live that way?

# Ut Deo # Ya Hey

# Ut Deo # Deo. #

# I wake up, my shoulder's cold I've got to leave you

# Your sword's grown old and rusty Burnt beneath the rising sun

# Forgetting all the things it's done

# You're right back where you started from

# I see it in your eyes that now you're giving up the gun

# Your sword's grown old and rusty Burnt beneath the rising sun

# Forgetting all the things it's done

# That now you're giving up the gun. #

# I see you shine in your way Go on, go on, go on

# You're right back where you started from

# That now you're giving up the gun. #

hidden mines. # I just smiled and told him that

was only true of Hannah. # the days are long and the nights

no longer. # I count the seconds.

# you and me we've got our own sense of time.

# in Santa Barbara, dried. -- Hannah cried.

# I walked into town to find some kindling for the fire.

# if I can trust you, there is no future, there is no answer.

# we live on the US dollar. # you and me we've got our own sense

of time. future, there is no answer.

Though we live by the US dollar. future, there is no answer.

You and me, we've got our own sense of time.

You guys still doing all right? Thank you very much, Reading. We

have come to the end. One more song for you, like a good my song. Have

an amazing one. We are Vampire Weekend. -- goodbye song.

Don't you know that it's insane. God to get out of Cape Cod tonight.

Eat my words and take flight. We will face are human lives.

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott Don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott Don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?

# Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod?

# Walcott, don't you know that it's insane?

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