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Hey man I'm cool to lean on But I'm not your property See I'm crushing down these problems Cutting pain with poverty I'm just tryin' to catch a free ride From the temple to the tomb I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you Let me be your one-man army Bumpin' pain for anarchy I been slippin' through the cracks Like I was clothed in Vaseline Let me be your little sunshine In all this gloom and doom I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you Crashin' on chardonnay and Adderall Driving head on into the wonderwall Every day holidays when daddy's gone Livin' life like we're the only ones that know we're famous From the Capetown coliseums Cold disparity Electric fences hummin' like a hive without a queen We're all trying to catch a free ride From the temple to the tomb I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you I could really really really Use a rich rich friend like you Crashin' on chardonnay and Adderall Driving head on into the wonderwall Every day holidays when daddy's gone Livin' life like we're the only ones that know we're famous Crashin' on chardonnay and Adderall Driving head on into the wonderwall Every day holidays when daddy's gone Livin' life like we're the only ones that know we're famous Crashin' on chardonnay and Adderall Driving head on into the wonderwall Every day holidays when daddy's gone Livin' life like we're the only ones that know we're famous ‘Rich Friends’ by Portugal. The Man Songwriters: John Baldwin Gourley / John Hill / Greg Edwards / Ammar Malik / Carla Azar / Kyle O'quin / Eugene Goreshter / Zachary Carothers / Jason Wade Sechrist / Zoe Manville / Eric Andrew Howk “Rich Friends” is the fifth track on Portugal. The Man’s album Woodstock. Singer John Gourley explains the inspiration for “Rich Friends” in an interview with Billboard. While at a friend’s birthday party, Harry Styles showed up and gifted the friend a 50’s Gibson guitar. Gourley reportedly stated: ‘Who the fuck do we know that’s friends with Harry Styles?’ We were all sitting there, the dickheads in the corner, like, ‘I could use some rich friends.’ All the stupid shit we say made it onto the record.” Source: Genius Lyrics Woodstock is the eighth full-length album by American rock band Portugal. The Man, released on June 16, 2017 through Atlantic Records. After having released Evil Friends in 2013, Portugal. The Man began work on a new project, under the working title Gloomin + Doomin. This album was eventually shelved, partly due to a conversation between John Gourley and his father and the discovery of a lost ticket stub from the Woodstock festival. Work began on the Woodstock album shortly thereafter, involving new music as well as material from the Gloomin + Doomin era. In 2014, the band often uploaded to their Instagram account while working on the album. Portugal. The Man is an American rock band from Wasilla, Alaska, currently based in Portland, Oregon. The group consists of John Baldwin Gourley, Zach Carothers, Kyle O'Quin, Jason Sechrist, Eric Howk and Zoe Manville. Gourley and Carothers met and began playing music together in 2001 at Wasilla High School. The group's first two albums, from 2006 and 2007, were released on Fearless Records; they moved to Atlantic Records in 2010. On January 28, 2018, the band won "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" for their biggest hit song "Feel It Still" at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. The band's name is based on the idea of David Bowie's "bigger than life" fame. They wanted the band to have a bigger-than-life feel but did not want to name it after one of their members. "A country is a group of people," guitar player and vocalist John Gourley explains. "With Portugal, it just ended up being the first country that came to mind. The band's name is 'Portugal'. The period is stating that, and 'The Man' states that it's just one person" (any one of the band members). The name has a more personal meaning as well: Portugal. The Man was going to be the name of a book that Gourley had planned to write about his father and his many adventures. Source: Wikipedia