Cousins Lyrics

[Solo Guitar]

[Bridge]
You could turn your back on the bitter world
You could turn your back on the bitter world
You could turn your back on the bitter world
You could turn your back on the bitter world


[Chorus]
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
It's a line that's always running
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
I can feel it coming
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
It's a line that's always running
Me and my cousins and you and your cousins
I can feel it coming

[Guitar Solo]

[Instrumental Outro]

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“Cousins” features long, complicated guitar riffs and disjointed vocalizations in the background, but it’s still good enough to serve as Contra’s second single and gain critical acclaim from fans.

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What did Vampire Weekend say about "Cousins"?
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I really like “Cousins”… We have so many different fans and different people like different songs and some people gravitate towards the quiet songs, some people towards the loud songs – this is obviously a huge generalisation – but the two times I can think about when some rappers came over to me and said they liked Vampire Weekend were A$AP Rocky and Post Malone and they both specifically said they liked “Cousins”… Might be like a generational thing maybe, that they missed the first album.
That song is vert reflective to me of stuff that I liked when I was twelve or thirteen. I loved Ska and surf music and kind of like high energy stuff so that’s a pretty special song.

– Ezra Koenig for Radio X

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