Step (Remix) Lyrics

[Intro: Ezra Koenig]
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

[Verse 1: Danny Brown]
Back, back, way back, I used to front like I was Don Juan
Couldn't settle down, couldn't find a girl to hold on

Used to get my roll on, hit the spots and stroll on
Now I found one with a hand I like to hold on
Every time I'm with her, dudes always wanna stare
I be staring back like, "You don't wanna go there"
Used to didn't care, now I hit you with a chair
If it just so happen, touch a string on her hair

Now me and shorty wop spending more and more time
So since she got my heart then I gotta have her spine
And if any dude try to come for what's mine
A pair of size nines where the sun don't shine
The sugar in my Kool-Aid, boo gets me through days
Swear to God, one day I might watch her throw a bouquet
Said, "Nowhere on this earth, nowhere in this world
I should ever, ever see you stepping to my girl"


[Verse 2: Heems]
That's my old girl, my old girl from college
I always think about her when the leaves turn orange
Yeah, we went to Wesleyan and she scoffed at Vassar
I met her at a wine and cheese, I looked right past her
Apparently, she would notify me right after
I smashed her the first night, the first pipe's the worst pipe
But after, I satisfied thirst like, "Mmm"
The pastor would satisfy the church like
She lived in WestCo and she studied frescoes
And head to toes, she stayed in the best clothes
I represent Queens, she would move out to Brooklyn
Never thought that she would have her precious heart took-en
By a shy, brown guy from Bellerose
That stayed in shell-toes, until Hell froze
Her freckles dance on her porcelain skin
It's like, she's got a special force within
And I been high, but ain't no higher place
Than alongside her by the fireplace

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Genius Annotation

On New Years Eve 2013, the band released the remix to what Pitchfork named the 14th best song of the year.

https://twitter.com/vampireweekend/statuses/418132457825644544

As a track that was already heavily inspired by hip-hop, it was fitting for it to receive the rap treatment. It doesn’t really bite from the original “Step” by Souls of Mischief, though it’s written more in the spirit of that than the Vampire Weekend lyrics.

Heems' verse is predictably the most metatextual take on the metatextual quality of the Vampire Weekend take on the original song. Not joking, just joking, obvs, but his verse is a joke about Vampire Weekend songs written in the meter and about the subculture of early Vampire Weekend songs – which is what “Step” is about, and what it rejects – and would’ve made an amazing Vampire Weekend song itself. Or L'Homme Run cut with Andrew Kaladjian and Ezra Factory (ne Koenig). And did.

Marice of the comprehensive fan blog Team Vampire Weekend agrees re who must close this partition, please!

https://twitter.com/teamvampyweeks/status/418575047389769728

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