'You can't fight a war with nobody to fight back' Print

You can't fight a war with nobody to fight back But if we get to digging to the bottom of the stack We'll sell it to the youth and you never know, maybe You'll get back home and you'll see your baby, oh We'll just act like we care All we're needing is a reason, it don't need to be clear Singing songs to the news, it can play to their fears Someone's got to die and you don't have to love him But the military's still got more in its budget, oh We always need more next year No one cares about the waves At the bottom of the ocean And at the bottom of the ocean It's always blue No one will remember 'Cause nothing lasts forever And everybody's looking For somebody to use When you don't bring them home and the war hasn't ended There's still money there and that money needs spending The powers that be, we got to do what we do If they never know it then they'll never feel used, oh Like I often do To all the pretty girls out there looking for heartache Crying, "All I wanted is to be your baby" And all the pretty girls out there living with heartache Crying 'cause they're never going to see their baby, oh We just act like we care No one cares about the waves At the bottom of the ocean And at the bottom of the ocean It's always blue No one will remember 'Cause nothing lasts forever And everybody's looking For somebody to use No one will remember 'Cause nothing lasts forever The world is always changing And it's always blue And it's always blue ‘Waves’ by Portugal. The Man Songwriters: Asa Taccone / Brian Burton / Matthew Compton “Waves” talks about the pointless struggle and pain war can cause, and how no matter what, at some point, everyone who dies in the conflict will be forgotten. The narrator is asking if there is a God who’s so powerful and great, why would he let something like this happen? Source: Genius Lyrics Evil Friends is the seventh full-length album by the Alaskan rock band Portugal. The Man. It was released on June 4, 2013 through Atlantic Records. It is the band's first collaboration with producer Danger Mouse. The album was promoted by the singles "Evil Friends", "Purple Yellow Red and Blue" and "Modern Jesus". It received favorable reviews from music critics, and charted in the US, Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland. 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