New York-born alternative / indie rock band Vampire Weekend has a new album out -- their fifth -- "Only God Was Above Us," that will be released this Friday. A track from that album is our song today: "Mary Boone." It's about a popular and well-known New York City SoHo art dealer who got in trouble with the IRS a few years ago and had to close her galleries. The band chose the ride through the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey to New York City as a motif. Some lyrics:
Painted white, new in town
You weren't hiring, but I was looking
In those days, my working days
Came in from Jersey, not from Brooklyn.
Oh, my love, was it all in vain?
We always wanted money, now the money's not the same
In a quiet moment at the theater, I could hear the train
Deep inside the city, your memory remains
