'N Portugal - Ithaka

'cause I lived a lot of years in Portugal

'cause I got a lotta bros in Portugal

'cause I found my soul in Portugal

Ithaka ain’t from the old school, Ithaka ain’t from the new

I came swimming into the picture from the depths of the blue

With my fins dried out dragged myself to town

Didn’t know it if I was lost or if I was found

No job, no friend, no money, not funny

Stepchild in Lisboa with no milkshakes or honey

But I be gliding, I be rolling

Treatin' time like it be stolen

Take the whole story back to the year 1992

Cuz sometimes you gotta do WHAT YOU GOTTA DO*

Time for me to escape from the city of devils

It was the riddle of life that I was trying to unravel

I had to get out of there while there was going to get

LA was the hunter California was the net

PORTUGAL, I MISSING YOU

YOU WAS DOWN WITH ME AND I’M DOWN WITH YOU

PORTUGAL, I’M MISSING YOU

YOU’RE A PART OF ME AND I’M A PART OF YOU

I WAS FLAT BROKE IN PORTUGAL

ATE A LOT OF CALDO VERDE IN PORTUGAL

DRANK ALOT OF SUPERBOCK IN PORTUGAL

SMOKED ALOT OF GANZA IN PORTUGAL

I look to the blue cuz I’m THE BUM WITH BLUE BLOOD*

BEEN FOUR long YEARS* since I made KETCHUP LOVE.*

Pretty Little, Pretty Little pretty pretty STELLAFLY*

Won’t you please baby please be my SUBSTANCE-FREE EXILE*

But she said, No It’s time for you to roam

So catch the SUSHI-PACK SUBWAY* and get yourself on home

I walk the street with no STREET LOYALTY.*

Cuz I be from the sea, I be the FISHDADDY.*

In my SPIRITUAL GRAVEYARD* there I was stuck

Wasn’t easy like I thought to just SO GET UP.*

THE RISE AND FALL OF A FORTUNE* that was the next PLOT.*

SUNNY THE BUNNY* split with my money

But he never got caught

ERASE THE SLATE OF HATE*, ERASE THE SLATE OF HATE

With some FLOWERS AND THE COLOR OF PAINT.*

PORTUGAL, I MISSING YOU

YOU WAS DOWN WITH ME AND I’M DOWN WITH YOU

PORTUGAL, I’M MISSING YOU

YOU’RE A PART OF ME AND I’M A PART OF YOU

THERE’S ALOT OF SUGAR DOLLS IN PORTUGAL

AND I MADE ALOT OF LOVE IN PORTUGAL

BUT I DIDN’T MAKE BABIES IN PORTUGAL

CUZ I ALWAYS WORE A GLOVE IN PORTUGAL

BUTTERFLY OF WISDOM* said, STAY STRONG LITTLE BROTHER*

AIN’T NO BREEZE*, so STONEMOBILE* on down

To the ALABAMA CAVE PARTY*

KING TARDY’s* UMBILIBUS* arrived at two

With the ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGEL* crew

Then it was URSULA of ITHAKA*, CAPRICORN and CANCER*

And SEABRA IS MAD*

From SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF GIBRALTAR.*

Later, met PIGEON LADY* at EDEN BY THE SEA.*

She’s a SLEEPDRIVER* But she makes GOOD COOKIES*

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Now I’m speeding through the decades like they was red lights

Keeping a lead on the loanshark that lent me the good life

I’m out there living mine all the time

Cuz rhymes don’t grow in the garden

PORTUGAL, I MISSING YOU

YOU WAS DOWN WITH ME AND I’M DOWN WITH YOU

PORTUGAL, I’M MISSING YOU

YOU’RE A PART OF ME AND I’M A PART OF YOU

PEACE AND LOVE IN PORTUGAL

THE SKY’S STILL BLUE IN PORTUGAL

REEFS AND POINTS IN PORTUGAL

SCORED THE BARREL OF MY LIFE IN PORTUGAL

SCRIBED A LOT OF RHYMES IN PORTUGAL

MADE A DEMO IN PORTUGAL

CUT TWO ALBUMS IN PORTUGAL

Yes, LIFE WAS GOOD IN PORTUGAL

PORTUGAL, I MISSING YOU

YOU WAS DOWN WITH ME AND I’M DOWN WITH YOU

PORTUGAL, I’M MISSING YOU

YOU’RE A PART OF ME AND I’M A PART OF YOU

© Ithaka Darin Pappas

Ravenshark Music/ASCAP

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