Portugal. The Man Album

Ahhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhh
Ohhh, I remember things, not many things, Dont remember when my feet touched the ground
I remember every word and every sound.
I remember every word and every sound.
I remember things, not many things, I remember when the ships hit the sea
I remember my name and what they payed for me.
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba...
Ba ba ba ba ba ba...
Lay me back down
In the bed where they called all the people
Listen to the world, lay me back down
In the holes in the walk that we wondered.
Listen to the world
Lay me back dowwwn.
I remember things, not many things, don't remember presidents who walked the dead
I remember the wars and jestal property
I remember the wars and jestal property
I remember things, not many things, dont remember places in time.
(I remember when ships hit the sea)
I remember the love and everyday
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba
Lay me back down
In the bed where they called all the people
Listen to the world, lay me back down
In the holes in the walk that we wandered.
Listen to the world
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
lay me back down
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh..
lay me back down
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh..
lay me back down
(Lay me back down)
Ahhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh
Ahhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh
Ahhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh
Ahhhhh follow me back to the ground
Lay me back down
Listen to the world, lay me back down
In the holes in the walk that we wondered.
Listen to the world
Lay me back dowwwn
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
Lay me back down
Lay me back dowwwwwwn

Ahhh Ahh ah
All the needy still need
and all the losers still lose
all the preachers still preach
but they ain't bringin no change

I'm not afraid to die
'cause all these colors will change

All the low is still low
and all the high still get high
how I wish we could dance
but all these rhythms don't seem to match up
seem to match up

I'm not afraid to die
'cause all these colors will change

ohhhh ahhh ohhhh
Ahhhh ahhh ahhhh

Bits and bits of cane, burning burning burning
bit by bit away
they grow as people grow
and glow as people glow

I'm not afraid to die
'cause all these colors will change

Some were reborn
Some were simply shaken free
Some were the colors
That took to the streets

They found in those later years
They knew what we need
It's love for each other
And every living thing

And now all my time
Is used
It's only
Lonely time too

Some were simply shaken free
Some were the colors
That took to the streets

They thought in those younger years
They knew what to do
They knew what to say
Had nothing to lose

Now pick up and pack up the place you were pink
And falling around
Dripping and crawling and clawing inside
You're missing some sounds

The ones that float carry and dance about time
And space that it lends
Room to be free like the sun and the moon
Save for the sound

Take from the air
Take to the streets
And I (x4)

We'll be reborn
Yeah we'll simply be free
We'll be the colors
That pour through the streets

And find in their after yeas
That we're all the same
We're all the colors
That pour through the streets

Take from the air
Take to the streets
And I (x4)

Take from the air
Take to the streets
And I (x2)

My legs are all buried in salt, the way
as my lips move out all of my words, the way

But this can't be all that we have to wait

pressing pulling this pains, the way
they listen and listen for all the way

but this can't be all we have to wait

do you hear the wind child?
calling out the salt plains
listen to the wind child
its calling, calling out your name
I was born of sun beams
warming up our limbs
born up from the earth, child


No I'll never come back down, never come down from here
(This can't be all that we have to wait)

I don't know why were created.
but i know that, i know we all die.
(know we all die)
Go pick up all your tools build a roof.
I'll pick up all mine and build one too.

I just do as i do.
Yea i do as i Please.
And that's all. I can do.

i don't know why were created.
but i know that. i know we all die.
(know we all die)
listen to the cars just passing through.
helpin all those friends that helped you too.

Yea you do as you do.
You just do as you please.
and that's all you can do.
(that's all you can do.)

I don't know why were created.
but i know that. i know we all die.
open up your arms and hold on too.
every thing you own that owns you too.
and just let it all go.
cause we do as we please.
and that's all we can do.
(its all we can do)

i don't know why were created.
but i know that. i know we all die.
and that's all we can do.

Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs
they're begging barking bashing at their homes
cold and wet and dirty like the earth
that mashes molding muddy marching boots
now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
that foggy hazy drumming of that rain

Hear that outside? They're coming in
They're banging knocking shouting at the door
Fists are heavy pounds of pounding placed
Firm and steady rhythms that they pace
In and out and in and out we named
Everything and everyone we've known

Hear that outside? We lost our homes
Given up in loans and time we paid
Worth more to us than them, so we will end
Our lives with backs that strained to find
A pretty place and life to call our own
A place that we well never ever know

Hear that outside? We lost the war
How easy it is done if we never knew
It started back before I was born
All of us, all of us were other souls
We borrowed life and shared it with our own
And now we need to stretch and find our own

Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs
They're begging, barking, bashing at their homes
Cold and wet and dirty like the earth
That mashes muddy, molding, marching boots
Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
That foggy, hazy, drumming of that rain

Hear that outside? It's changing airs
And bleeding out the colors of the world

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

I slip back down where we found
a meter milling maze
And the rest that we find sound

Will it find us on the bottom?
Will we find our way?
Will we fall apart useless machining the made?
Find that sleep that we've lost

Fair and tired living
Lives like little lifted leans
Shaking heads under the shade of them bright bright bright sweet pear trees

Mine is gone with the day
Never miss a beat never find a home
Mine is gone with all time, all time

Mother, father, brother sister, son daughter
We are the rabbit that let the fox lead us
Out in the sun with the cold war fever
Don't need to beg for your money just please don't eat us

Deaf like the big guns foaming
At the mouth, they're gnashing
Quiet like our words that roam and roll about

Will we find our loves lost?
Will we ever make it back?
Will we ever need more than the fill that we can get
Let's find that sleep that we lost

Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost
Then we'll find that sleep we lost, we lost

No I'm not jesus, but I'm more than a man
I'll never grow older, lonely or sad
Still I'm never pleased, I'm never pleased

From the corners until
I wake up walking as careful can be
careful to miss out on all that I see
I'm never pleased, I'm never pleased

Just be common like I
I know that you know that I know that you know I try, ooh, ooh
I carry myself around missing the teeth we once had, ooh, ooh, ooh

Mornings all melt about like lively seeds
That own you, they own you, they own you
And they're never pleased, they're never pleased

So sleep like those giants that never know
And lie like the liars tell you it's so
I'm never pleased, I'm never pleased

I know that you know that I know that you know I try, ooh, ooh
I carry myself around missing the teeth we once had, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh

I know that you know that I know that you know I try
I know that you know that I know that you know I try
I know that you know that I know that you know I try
I know that you know that I know that you know I try
I know that you know that I know that you know I try

Oh, I sit back and dream
Oh, I sit back and be
Oh, I sit back and see
Oh, I sit back in need

Oh, I sit back and dream
Oh, I sit back and be
Oh, I sit back and see
Oh, I sit back in need

Oh, I sit back and dream
Oh, I sit back and be
Oh, I sit back and see
Oh, I sit back in need

Oh, I sit back and dream
Oh, I sit back and be
Oh, I sit back and see
Oh, I sit back in need

Oh, I sit back and dream

I was shaking from the neck down,
shaking down to my toes
Wondered if I'd ever feel that cold again
if I'd ever see that snow

Because
People always talking and moving about
People always moving and talking about
Hard times

 I was a little older now but I still need
Everyone I know
Money means a little more and more
Yeah we all need it, at least they tell me so

Because
People always talking and moving about
People always moving and talking about
Hard times
Talking 'bout hard times
Talking 'bout hard times

I think about all the times that have passed and
All the times still to come
Will we ever, ever live together again?
Or did we ever at all

Because
People always talking and moving about
People always moving and talking about
Hard times

Talkin' 'bout hard times, yeah
Talkin' 'bout our times, yeah

Talkin' 'bout hard times, yeah
Talkin' 'bout our times, yeah

Talkin' 'bout hard times, yeah
Talkin' 'bout our times, yeah

Talkin' 'bout hard times, yeah
Talkin' 'bout our times, yeah

They let us out from our zoos
A fixed escape still, we didn't know just what to do
It was steps and steps on missing backs
And our hands had been bent backwards to match

It's all mine, all mine
It's all mine, all mine

A pacing pace that races through
Our will and bones that never know just what we do
One hundred stuck stayed
While a million more just played

It's all mine, all mine
It's all mine, all mine

I shed my skin and just crawled around
My body ached as I was rolling 'round
Felt it as I slipped away
Making parts and mixing up with the stars

It's all mine, all mine
It's all mine, all mine
It's all mine

I was born in 1989
All we could do
No shakes or coughs or burst relief
Or lists of all our things
Just minutes making minds

I was born in 1989
All we could do
But the making never made
The comers never came
But I still felt that awful news

It was patience that we had
And the miles that we had left
That held us there
Until we could let go

I was born in 1989
And it'll be over soon
No moon children or peoples sun
No ringing in my ears
When I felt that awful news

It was patience that we had
And the miles that we had left
That held us there
Until we could let go

It was patience that we had
And the miles that we had left
That held us there
Until we could let go

I was born in 1989
All we could do

It was patience that we had
And the miles that we had left
That held us there
Until we could let go

It was patience that we had
And the miles that we had left
That held us there
Until we could let go

But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way

But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way
But we found that we were always lost
And we will never find our way