All Your Light

Portugal the Man was started by John Gourley, an Alaskan in Wasilla. Brilliant music for an American. Some songs are evocative...some songs you just love...some songs seem like something else to you until the video changes your lens. This is one of those tunes that I will play until it is worn out...play it until I become numb to its initial awesomeness. The artist's intention is unclear from a cursory review of the top comments on the YouTube channel. I love this juxtaposition of a band becoming an international sensation and current fans not realizing the roots of the artistry. I relate.

I'm just a shadow of a bigger man

Glowing brighter with each year I am

I was standing on a mountain

Just looking down (on you, on you)

It's like my daddy said

"You gotta use your head

My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

Yeah, no one said that I aim to please

All your light can't save me

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

As a boy, I had it figured out

There are things that you can't live without

But money, it's sad but true, would surely top that list

And your rules (your rules), your rules, well they would not be missed

And I became

Whole again

'Cause no one said, no one said, no one said

There'd be times like these

I said all your light can't save me

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

No one said there'd be times like these

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

No one said there'd be times like these

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

No one said there'd be times like these

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

Well, no one said there'd be times like these

I was licking flames when I broke your reins

Still, no one said, no one said, no one said it'd be suicide

All your light can't save me

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

No one said there'd be times like these

"My body won't work for nobody but me, son"

No one said there'd be times like these

All your light can't save me

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come

All your light can't save me ("My body won't work for nobody but me, son")

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come ("My body won't work for nobody but me, son")

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come

All your light can't save me

All your light, all your light can't save me

I won't wait, though my time may come

I can't wait, I can't wait, for my time to come