 Genius Lyrics
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Portugal. The Man – People Say
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[Verse 1: John Gourley] / Save me, I can't be saved / I won't / I'm a president's son / I don't need no soul / [Chorus: John Gourley] / All the soldiers say, "It'll be alright / We
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Portugal. The Man – People Say (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1] / Save me, I can't be saved, I won't / I'm a president's son, I don't need no soul / [Chorus] / All the soldiers say, "It'll be alright / We may make it through the war
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Portugal. The Man – Do You
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[Verse 1] / Do you, do you understand the people that we are? / And do you believe right from the start? / And do you see that everybody needs? / And do you feel we're burning in
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Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
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“Feel It Still” was the second single from the 8th studio album by Portugal. The Man, entitled Woodstock.
The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the
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Portugal. The Man – Mornings
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[Verse 1] / Mornings go best with sunrise / The sunrise I used to see but never see now / If I was waiting, we'd build it all up / We'd look all around 'til we find, we find / [
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Portugal. The Man – The Woods
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[Intro] / When I lived in the woods / When I lived in the woods / When I lived in the woods / Everything was alright / Everything, everything was alright / Never knew where we are
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Portugal. The Man – Telling Tellers Tell Me
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[Verse 1] / Summer came and I lost my shoes / Purple gold linens, pressed them down in the basement / And if you don't know or see them clouds / Will step to the sky and wind down
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Portugal. The Man – Mornings (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1] / Mornings go best with sunrise / The sunrise I used to see but never see now / If I was waiting, we'd build it all up / We'd look all around 'til we find, we find / [
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Portugal. The Man – The Woods (Acoustic)
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[Chorus] / When I lived in the woods / When I lived in the woods / When I lived in the woods / Everything was alright / Everything, everybody was alright / Never knew where we are
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Portugal. The Man – All My People
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[Verse 1] / Deeper in and deeper still, use your hands for eyes / Sift around the bottom row and soon will be your time / Keep your hands by your side / Hands by your side / Hands
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Portugal. The Man – Smile
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“Smile” is a reflection on the album as a whole. It’s about the narrator deciding to actively ignore all the questions and arguments he imposed throughout the album, and just to be
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Portugal. The Man – The Dead Dog
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Here is what John Gourley had to say about this song in an interview with Antiquiet:
“The Dead Dog” was the second song that Anthony Saffery, Adam Taylor and I began working on
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Portugal. The Man – Some Men
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[Verse 1] / Some men search to find their own / Some men will never find someone / Some men are searching for the people in the sky and / Some men live in space and time / Some men
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Portugal. The Man (Ft. "Weird Al" Yankovic) – WHO’S GONNA STOP ME
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[Verse 1] / Who's gonna stop me when there's no one there to stop me but me? / A copy of a copy of a hero that you want me to be (To be, to be) / Sneaking out, jumping over
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Portugal. The Man – Guns and Dogs (Acoustic)
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[Verse] / We took a trip down in '87 / We were looking for a place where we don't fear heaven / We got, we got some guns, got some dogs / But just like them dogs, well those guns
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Flatbush Zombies (Ft. Portugal. The Man) – Crown
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[Chorus: Portugal. The Man] / I’ve been gloomin', and doomin' so long / I don't think I can carry on down / This long and winding road now / Can't you see that doom's been, gloomin
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Portugal. The Man – Lovers In Love
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[Verse] / Crawl from the fire into the pan / What we don't need, hell will demand / Higher, higher, higher, higher / Higher, higher, higher, higher / Well, I'm not in need
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Portugal. The Man – Hard Times
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While he maintains that there is no song the band hates, singer John Gourley has said that if he were forced to pick one song that he wished had never been recorded, he would pick
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Portugal. The Man – Shade
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[Verse 1] / Claims, they crawled from those clouds / And over mountains cried / Into the streams where they ran the length of / Past and time that called out / With their hands
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Portugal. The Man – Guns. Guns... Guns
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[Verse 1] / Where have all the people gone / Whose lives are no longer of use to them? / But this system bites habit forming / But this single file is so contagious / But black
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Portugal. The Man – What, Me Worry?
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[Intro: Zack Carothers] / Yo, remember when we were kids? / What? / [Verse 1] / Every minute, it's runnin' through my head / Hundred million thoughts that I could have said / And
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Portugal. The Man – Seventeen
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“Seventeen” was a b-side of the album Church Mouth, and was released on a 7" EP single along with the track “My Mind”, which appears on Church Mouth. The song was only available on
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Portugal. The Man – The Home
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[Intro] / Do you ever listen for the sounds that your hands make? / Did you know that we could make sounds? / [Verse 1] / I don't know what the palace knows / But I don't run with
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Portugal. The Man – The Sun
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[Verse 1] / If you look real high you just might find / Sitting in the stars, glistening, glistening / Waiting for the band to come / Just waiting for the man to come / Oh, I
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Portugal. The Man – Everyone Is Golden
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[Verse 1] / Diamonds shine like stars under the ground / Little rivers run in rings around the town / And everyone's a soldier just marching towards the ocean / [Pre-Chorus] / So
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Portugal. The Man – So American
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Criticizing the patriotism of the United States of America, “So American” is 2011’s In The Mountain In The Cloud’s second and last single. After its release, the track became a
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Portugal. The Man – Sleeping Sleepers Sleep
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[Verse 1] / Shave our heads, strip our clothes / Burn them books but the mind still grows / We people, we're dangerous things / Sheltered mind, a fear of rings / Fear of time and
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Portugal. The Man – Lovers in Love (Acoustic)
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[Verse] / Crawl from the fire into the pan / What we don't need, hell will demand / Higher, higher, higher, higher / Higher, higher, higher, higher / Well, I'm not in need
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Portugal. The Man – Don't Look Back In Anger
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[Verse 1] / Slip inside the eye of your mind / Don't you know you might find / A better place to play? / You said that you'd never been / But all the things that you've seen / They
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