Chris Black Changed My Life Album Lyrics by Portugal. The Man

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Heavy Games II

Heavy games
Can't take this back
'Cause the present has a past
Now I'm f*cked up forever

You don't need a mathematician to show you the root
But you're gonna face some competition to show me the proof
Don't need philosophy to tell me what I need
Open up your eyes and you'll see

Heavy games
Can't take this back
'Cause the present has a past
Now I'm f*cked up forever (forever)

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Grim Generation

One, two, three

Dream killer
Don't be naïve, there's a darkness deep in the stream
Smile and wave as it floats on by
Or dive on in and enjoy the ride (let me come in)

There's a stranger at my door (knocking)
Toy soldier coming home from war
Now I adore (darkness)
And out of darkness

I was born (I was born bittersweet)
So bittersweet (I was born bittersweet)
This grim generation (ooh)
Got a hold on me (ah)
This grim generation (ooh)
Got a hold on me

Television's on, paint it black
See the bobber going down, baby, reel it in
Got a monkey on my back, but I'm cool with that
We're right back where we started
Daddy's coming back, let's get started, hey

There's a stranger at my door (knocking)
Toy soldier coming home from war
Now I adore (darkness)
Like it's all never been done before
At my door (knocking)
Like it's all never been done before
At my door (knocking)

I was born (I was born)
So bittersweet (so bittersweet)
This grim generation (ooh)
Got a hold on me (ah)
This grim generation (ooh)
I was born (I was born bittersweet)
So bittersweet (I was born bittersweet)
This grim generation (ooh)
Got a hold on me (ah)
This grim generation (ooh)
Gotta let it be

When I was born, I came to be
When I was born, I came to be
When I was born, I came to be
I came to be

I was born
So bittersweet
This grim generation
Got a hold on me
It's got a hold on me

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Thunderdome [WTA]

All of the little gatos lose their cabezas this time of year

[Portugal. The Man]
Welcome to America
I'm waiting on a miracle
All my sins American
Yeah, I'm waiting on a miracle
I don't know what went wrong
Or why this feeling's gone

[Natalie Lafourcade]
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if ya (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)

[Portugal. The Man]
My man Jesus was a Mexican
Walking on the Rio Grande
Learn to speak American
Divided up the Chamisal
64' we split it
Like I don't know what went wrong
Or why this feeling's gone

[Natalie Lafourcade]
You know you want it if you leavе somebody you love
You know you want it if you leavе somebody you love
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if ya (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)

[Black Thought]
This American life
Vanity, such an American vice
I never question how fair is the price
On a pair of sunglasses I'm wearing at night
Face it, we've wasted our youth on the young
Pray for the taste of the truth on the tongue
Rather than taking my place in the pattern
I'm chasing the dragon, I'll live on the run
Nearly departed from where we had started
To where we have come is the eeriest part of it
Scary, the theory of one is the heart of a
Judgment free zone so it's crazy to feel this alone

[Portugal. The Man]
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody at home

[Natalie Lafourcade]
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if you leave somebody you love
You know you want it if ya (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)


[Portugal. The Man]
Welcome to America, yeah
Welcome to America, yeah

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Dummy

My religion is
A piano hanging over
Am I about to break free?
And I see it moving
Gotta pick up the groove and let go
Everyone I know
Is running from the afterlife

These days they make it sound sweet
If this is the last dance, you can count on me

One, two, three, four
Everybody get on the dance floor
Five, six, seven, eight
It's 4 AM and I'm wide awake
One, two, three, four
Everybody get on the dance floor
Five, six, seven, eight
I pray the Lord my soul to take

Way my phone is ringing
Paint a tunnel on the wall
Escape before the anvil falls
Gotta keep it moving
Gotta pick up the groove and let go
Everyone I know
Is running from the afterlife

These days they make it sound sweet
If this is the last dance, you can count on me

One, two, three, four
Everybody get on the dance floor
Five, six, seven, eight
It's 4 AM and I'm wide awake
One, two, three, four
Everybody get on the dance floor
Five, six, seven, eight
I pray the Lord my soul to take

The light is going out
The light in my life is going out
The light is going out
The light in my life is going out

One, two, three, four
Five, six, seven, eight
Gotta pick up the groove and let go

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Summer of Luv

the last, like, few seconds of a song, you know? like (yeah)
you think it's a full song, but it's just like

Kids at the Mercado on the east end
Dusting off the subs to acid house
Don't know why and I don't need a reason
If I had it all
still be laughing when it falls
Yeah, you already know

So high feelin' fine
Baby, close your eyes, see the world's alright (oh, yeah)
All I want to find
Is a little place for my girls, it's the summer of love

You already know
It's the summer of love
You already know

No one ever said it would be easy
If I had had it all
still be laughing when it falls
You already know

Turn on, tune in, drop out
Just another brick in the wall of doubt
Don't know why the caged bird sings
But baby we can find out how

So high feelin' fine
Baby, close your eyes, see the world's alright (oh, yeah)
All I want to find
Is a little place for my girls, it's the summer of love

You already know
It's the summer of love
You already know (oh, yeah)

No one ever said it would be easy
No one ever said I'd be all alone
I just wanna live my life breezy
I guess that's just how it goes
Yeah, you already know

So high feelin' fine
Baby, close your eyes, see the world's alright (oh, yeah)
All I want to find
Is a little place for my girls, it's the summer of love

You already know
It's the summer of love
You already know

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Ghost Town

In the shadow of the witch
All is clear and nothing's real
It's a hard pill to swallow, NPCs on the hill
Got no love for me, no love for you

All that now I've found
The end is near

Ghost town coming (and I'm so scared)
Ghost town coming (it's coming soon)
And if it feels like you're running
Three, two, one, gunnin'
There's a ghost town coming (soon)
Ghost town coming

It's a ghost town
It's a ghost town

Behold the children of the ape
Shaking up the magic ball
Okay, you want something for nothing from the crypto crowd cocaine
For me and you

Cheer up, Charlie Brown
The end is near (yeah)

Ghost town coming (and I'm so scared)
Ghost town coming (it's coming soon)
And if it feels like you're running
Three, two, one, gunnin'
There's a ghost town coming (soon)
Ghost town coming

It's a ghost town
It's a ghost town

All that you wanted, but you wanted to wait
I got a feeling it's already too late
All that you wanted, but you wanted to wait
I got a feeling that we're all gonna pay
All that you wanted, but you wanted to wait
I got a feeling it's already too late
All that you wanted, but you wanted to wait
I got a feeling that we're all gonna pay

It's a ghost town

That shit is amazing y'all
(We can't find gas) yo
Alright, we're coming

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Time's a Fantasy

Come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me
I see you in my dreams, see you in my dreams
And I scream
I see you in my dreams, see you in my dreams (Time's a fantasy)
I scream

Immorality is the ghost that haunts
Like you don't even know me
Stickin' together
We'll be together forever
With the ghost that haunts
All the things you don't owe me

Heavy games
You can't take this back
'Cause the future's coming fast
Now you're stuck here forever

You don't need no superstition
To show me the truth
But you're gonna need some ammunition
To shoot down the proof
Don't need astrology
To tell the sun to lead
Just follow the signs and you'll see

Heavy games
Can't take this back
'Cause the future's coming fast
Or you're stuck here forever

Got a feelin' that things are gonna be just fine
I got a feelin' that things are gonna be just fine
Ooh, got a feelin' that things are gonna be just fine
Ooh, got a feelin' that things are gonna be just fine (doubt)

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Doubt

Life is a dead end
Full of doubt
Can't keep my head up
In the clouds
Life is a planet
More square than round
No hole to fit in
Oh, pull me down

'cause ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me
Ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me
Don't let the curtain go down on me
Go down, down on me

Life is the rolling thunder
When the lights go out
But I'll be much stronger now
Gotta hold the whole world in my arms
Life is a circus
So send in the clowns
Can't keep my head up
With your guard looking down

Ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me
Ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me
Don't let the curtain go down on me
Go down, down on me

I'm shining
No need to shine for anyone but me
I'm shining
No need to shine for anyone but me
I'm shining (ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me)
No need to shine for anyone but me
I'm shining (ain't nobody told me there might not be nobody for me)
No need to shine for anyone but me
I'm shining (shining)
No need to shine for anyone but me
I'm shining (shining)
No need to shine for anyone but me

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Plastic Island

My mind's an ocean
Plastic island in the ocean
And I can see it, distant
The wheels are turnin' but you're spinnin' out

Is it the end, my friend? (Is it the end?)
Or is it coming around, around again?
Is it the end, my friend? (Is it the end, my friend?)
I can't come up for air, it gives me the bends

I'm not unhappy
Pull my string until I come undone
It's what the world is (the world is a mess)
Sure the world has got its evil ways
My heart is blinded by ya

Is it the end, my friend? (Is it the end?)
Or is it coming around, around again?
Is it the end, my friend? (Is it the end, my friend?)
I can't come up for air, it gives me the bends

(Woo)
(Woo)
(Woo)

Life is a memory
Yesterday's reverie
Life is a memory
Today is all that we are

Hey, hey
Hey, hey

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Champ

Billy and Jimmy gonna give me the spotlight
While I peel my face off the floor
Blessed in silence
Waiting for more

Stand by me
Stand by me
Stand by me
Stand by me

Killing the villain, gonna dance in the moonlight
Injecting a spirit so pure
Blessed in silence
Waiting for more

Stand by me (won't you stand by me?)
Stand by me
Stand by me
Stand by me

Turn out the light
Break the key off in the door
Our history of violence
Is the prophet of war (prophet of war)

Don't remind me (of all my mistakes)
Don't remind me
Don't remind me (oh, how my heart breaks)
Don't remind me

Why am I fighting to live if I'm just living to fight?
Why am I trying to see when there ain't nothing in sight?
Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try?
Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die?

Abolish borders
Abolish ICE
Abolish our system that keeps Indigenous people from their natural vibrations
Indigenous people, take back what's yours

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Anxiety:Clarity

I'm not supposed to be here
I'd rather be running, never wanted to be here
I question the feelings I feel
Hard to feel it coming when you don't wanna be here

I don't wanna let go
But everyone's running, running back into the fold
Will the pain bring ya back home
Or find yourself going the way the Buffalo goes?

And everyone's running like they don't wanna be here
And everyone's running like they don't wanna be here
And everyone's running like they don't wanna be, wanna be here
Everyone running thinking they're gonna be

(Why don't you go to f*cking Disneyland, you know)
(And build a monument to your delusional thinking?)

Why don't you go to f*cking Disneyland
And build a monument to your delusional thinking?

But wait, but wait
There is another breath
Just breathe, there is another breath
Oh, yeah, everybody's scared

Heavy games, oh
You can't take this back
Because the present has a past
Now you're stuck here forever

Heavy games, oh
You can't take this back
Because the present has a past
Now you're stuck here forever

Heavy games, oh
You can't take this back
Because the present has a past
Now you're f*cked up forever

Now you're f*cked up forever
Now you're f*cked up forever
Now you're f*cked up forever

And before you see that horrible forest fire
You see this massive cloud of smoke
And it's, and, and
And it's cinematic, and it's biblical
Does the end become just entertainment?
Wow, that's a fantastic-looking fire that's about to sweep through
Me