Ezra’s Interlude Lyrics
I don't wanna feel it for the second time
And I don't wanna call you up or wait for a sign
I just can't pretend I'm gonna make you mine
[Chromeo]
I never wanna be the last to know
So I guess I'll just go back to laying low
[Ezra Koenig]
I don't wanna feel it for the second time
And I don't wanna call you up or wait for a sign
I just can't pretend I'm gonna make you mine
[Chromeo]
I never wanna be the last to know
So I guess I'll just go back to laying low
About
The fourth song released from Chromeo’s 2014 album White Women is a short interlude featuring Ezra Koenig – the frontman for Vampire Weekend. Dave 1 from Chromeo (Dave Mackelovitch) was a French literature graduate teaching assistant at Columbia when Ezra Koenig was an undergraduate there. The longtime friends also collaborated on Chromeo’s “I Could Be Wrong.” Here they talked to Clash magazine about love, a la Celine Dion.
It’s probably a coincidence, but Rap Genius called Ezra Koenig’s spoken word pieces “batshit interludes” a few months before this album was announced.
To commemmorate this 7" Record Store Day release on Passover week, and the release of the Israelites via Passover, Poetry Genius has broken down Ezra Koenig’s other solo interludes, including his review of Nothing Was the Same for The Talkhouse and his 30th birthday poem “2 CHRONOS.”
Q&A
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