Portugal. The Man Album

Sell me, I'm a skeptical boy
And if you need help I'm not easily found
We met the man in the deep deep south
with the gritty smile and the dirty old church mouth
"my breath was short better hit the ground runnin"
papers, read and weigh down the stands
It's cold here and waiting weighs on this man
still not full, I need a pass and a page
march stepped some steps and it spoke some
war tongues flickered about that dirty old church mouth
fill me up with money gold cause ain't
nobody ever need me
my salt was skin of maps made whole gotta
get out gotta sell this soul
I'll be better when that sleep comes and finds me
stroll about through these forks and roads find
me in the pines in the sleet and cold
Shine on, in this brilliant paced pulse
all I need in this life is this love
"march stayed with the dirty old church mouth"
fill me up with money gold cause ain't
no body ever need me
my salt was skin of maps made whole gotta
get out gotta sell this soul
We met the man in the deep deep south with
the shit teeth smile that
poured about the church's mouth
fill me up with money gold cause ain't
nobody ever need me
then take me to the steeple let the
preachers hands a bathe me
"march stayed with the dirty old church mouth"

Did you ever see anyone
did you ever known anyone
speech trial come and lead my palms
soil pressed to the knees and below
because standing tall will make you grow
but only sharp eyes ever know
(Slip out your arrows in tongues
sleepin in the streets
Oh I, I'll dance on that cross)
Tell me where we plan to be
That sugar met the cinnamon (baby) boys
born a gentleman
Only love for everyone
My piano begs to take him home
But he's got those keys in his nose
that dance about in skipping views
got my only son feeling so low
(Slip out your arrows in tongues
sleepin in the streets
Oh I, I'll dance on that cross)
I'll be digging up these crops like snails licking,
leaving lips like
living trails
bodies dragging down against the earth they
said "don't you squeal I
know a pig when I sees one
coming up about the bend its a long and quiet
road ahead still they're talking
and always moving while we're sleeping
did you ever see anyone
(Slip out your arrows in tongues
sleepin in the streets
Oh I, I'll dance on that cross)
did you ever know or plan to tell me where we
plan to be...

Summer came and I lost my shoes
while them purple gold linens, pressed them down in the basement
and if don't you know or see them clouds
Will step to the sky and wind... down
tell me what you know tell me what we get tell
me where we go then tell me when you come back around
Shelter never pays without months without
rain after winter leaves we'll just do it again
Calm will find your soul
those tired lonely lips dragged him down to the train tracks
left them purple gold lids sittin down in the basement
and if we die here will we ever be back again?
Dawn was likely lined in the coming of men that shuffled slithered
legs till they found how to stand every time I grow I know I'll never change
because the liver tree sways, but knows he'll never find me
I know my problems and know where they lay
Dawn was likely lined in the coming of men
that shuffled slithered
legs till they found how to stand
my brothers busy laughing at the end of the
hall, said "That mans not
a doctor if he cures no cancer"
placed in the back where there are no dancers
crooked steps diamonds
and a bag housing answers
where I step to sky and wind... down
Calm will find your soul
those tired lonely lips dragged him down to the train tracks
and if we die here will we ever be back again?
Dawn was likely lined in the coming of men
that shuffled slithered legs till they found how to stand

Stepping steps of floating floats that float above
such shining notes
they know (Just where/why their feet are moving)
just where we should rest
policed and waiting patiently we knew where
we'd gone and where we'd be
we know this should never drown the seeds
ahhhhh ohhhhh
My mind is all gone.
deaf and dumb but fluent speech speaking
speaks and listening
while eating piled tangled sugar weaves
(Just where/why their feet are moving)
My mind is all gone
down deep pace past finding another there,
got a dollar? sold!
you are hands just do as I please....
I feel my body moving and feel these feet a
moving
A messy mess of fruits and pies that dance
about these aging eyes
they know just what becomes of seeds
A busy suit or dirty boys feeling rude in lazy
lies, (oh) my my my my
(Just where/why their feet are moving)
My mind is all gone

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 beside you as all the people
shouted up to the
"northern" territories
My, they glowed a bug burning at the ends of
sheet covered crowns
whose only words were
wicked mumbles that shake unstable manners
brought these thoughts about you
lights up like flies and ants that dip about and
aim.... to swallow us
up like them bread baked gums...
now I remain glowing at the ends it's because
it's you they've become
shade drifts around, southern where the sheets
are growing ash and
steeple factories
old boy you'll never know just what they
think, it never finds you
cheap work finding pockets only when we're
aimed.... to swallow them
up like the bread baked gums...
these lights were waves that spilled through
my space (in the plains)
where no one knows if they'll ever need again
(I want to)
come and get and take me home

Because its safe at the bottom this lake
we know what your gonna do when you get there
sit down and listen
We built that cold hearted fool and on that
shit he made money
motives lost in a heap because the deaf don't
deaf don't listen
Wake up, oh that sunshine is shining in
Let's go. I don't care who knows it
I'm an apple dripping man just like the
feet that tapped "take me home"
We'll be back when the stores are in order, the
house isn't shaking
and the king is elected from the love that
grows it love thats growing
Wake up, oh that sunshine is shining in
Let's go. I don't care who knows it
I'm an apple dripping man just like the
feet that tapped "take me home"
We built the mountains to stand up where he knows
all the sheep that showed don't care who knows it
but the sons are the giants built by the pharaoh's
where the apples fed them sheep
Wake up, oh that sunshine is shining in
Let's go. I don't care who knows it
I'm an apple dripping man just like the
feet that tapped "take me home

Shepherds they came
stripped of their names
and we were all the daughters
that fell from her to ground
because she needed us
she needed love
but we're all gone
to strip that ground
Shivered pores were caves
teeth were all decayed
jutting jagged rising up
like welts on backs in strain
We climbed up those banks from our place in
the shade
built us a fire but never knew what we made
its not your mind, self, not your thoughts not
your soul
because
we are that fire
We're you safe down in my hands
The higher we climb
these shapes show
and this place is more holy when noboday
knows/goes
Show me what is still free and I will tell you.
Its not your mind your
self your thoughts your soul

Look at him working wearing his hands to the
bone just to prove where he came from
The man’s always worried, the man only worries
himself if his pay and his bellies of mention
If we had the money, we'd climb our
way back down somehow
and if we're in the garden don't you know that
our bellies are full
His eyes always moving licking about as they
please, you know he's always in question
hair falling about him favors fair please and
polite very fond and glad to have known you
If we had the money, we'd climb our way
back down somehow
and if we're in the garden don't you know that
our bellies are full
now that heavens out the way
Don't you feed them hungry or to hold somebody
when you're sleeping through that night all alone
hold tight maybe we're all hungry and lonely
cause those fires don't burn well alone
Look at him moving, listen to feet falling bare
on the stone all about him
that tamborines ringing, those bells have all worried their minds
because there's no sorted of safety here
our bellies are full now that heavens out of the way.
Don't you feed them hungry or to hold somebody
when you're sleeping through that night all alone
hold tight maybe we're all hungry and lonely
cause those fires don't burn well alone

Birth me of blood oil
salt sugar water pales
build me black jesus
cause jesus can't save me
shackles pulling at your hair
shine me from roots out
wash me form the neck down
cut me fat stores
take me to the tree line
I'm a headin down down down
down to the river cause I don't believe in medicine
I'll crawl out shakin pale
always got the answer I got ears all around me
burn up in black smoke
thick and pourin down your throat
make me of bread walks
listen up with ears we're divin
birth me of blood oil
salt sugar water pales
build me black jesus
shackles pulling at your hair
I'm a headin down down down
down to the river cause I don't believe in medicine
I'll crawl out shakin pale
always got the answer I got ears all around me
Tell your children we got another year comin
oil stands the legs this body speaks in tongues
and croaks "I'm headin down"
I'll walk down to the river where we met our pales
filled and spillin like our sothern friends
met that pale atop the rocks and moss
grass grips licks about our heels and bends
Tell your children we spent a year in this fire.
copper bands and hells getting lighter line up
in lines we can only get higher
Tell your children we got another year comin

How High. Soldiers pull boys through rain
ground to their toes ground to the dirt
(oh) my. They spilled down the steps
filed in rows like hair likes to pour
like skin loves to warm
but teeth don't pull like these chains don't
drag around
.... because it's safe at the bottom....
Wind down to the beds of the leaves
bedding of sand where fire don't burn (but
the tops of trees)
Out, out of the head streams a maze
of colors and shapes that dance from these walls
but trust don't pay like these guns don't fuck
around
.... we know it's safe at the bottom....
I know what I know, and all I ever need is you
Down, down in the sand lives alone
in shackles and bone meat blood from grown
gravel and stone
but teeth don't pull like these chains don't
drag around
.... because it's safe at the bottom....
Calm but never finds rest these bones
for what we don't know for all that we know
It's all that we've known
but trust don't pay like these guns don't fuck
around
.... we know it's safe at the bottom....
I know what I know, and all I ever need is you

Shave our heads
strip our clothes
burn them books but
the mind still grows
a sheltered mind with
fears of rings
fear of time
and missing links
we all once were.
and I'll walk until my legs are broken
I was up walking and you were the shoes
bored with the thoughts that you thoughts I could use
Islands were made of brick stone and shade
where deaths only rest of laughable tunes
feel your toes
buried sand
wide eyes roll and
the legs, they stand
I was alseep until my eye were opened
we are made to be sewn
bodys lips eyes
earthed and regrown
shave our heads
strip our clothes
burn them books but
the mind still grows
and I'll walk until my legs are broken
Bills sit about talking of people they've used
born of new worlds that have fallen past due
trusting in funding and finding a place
in wheel wells and homes and people like you
films finding fair faces and lies
while ships bearing backs house glass teeth and eyes
like the apartment of capable tunes
that bored with the thoughts that we thought it could use
it never ever rains if you never cry
and you never have to mourn if you never ever die

Heavy were the words dripping from my brain
flow about and sink in little bitty bits
where I know I know myself where floors were found
shores were shaping doors
stretch for miles and mile and miles
I know I know myself
and everyone hidden from the sun
pepper churns and salts about my little nose
where I know I know myself
and if you love everybody
then I wonder, shall you be saved
and I'm thinking, when will we be found

I need you sunshine this rains a poured
please please please please please me...