Portugal. The Man | Portugal. The Man - Smile (Crystal Ballroom #SOS) [Live] @Portugal.TheMan | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Live performance of "Smile" by Portugal. The Man off their album, Evil Friends.
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We holed ourselves up in the Crystal Ballroom for a few days and re-learned how to play with each other. It was great to see our bandmates and crew all in one place again. We took the time to finally learn "Smile" one of our favorites and most requested songs. Here it is, the first time we ever performed the song.

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Lyrics:
I don't need to talk about the world alright
I just wanna sleep with a smile tonight
I don't wanna talk about the hungry people
People down and out I'll sleep when the sun goes down

When I wake up early in the morning
I don't watch the news I just wake up with a smile by you
And I don't wanna talk about the war
I just wanna smile smile some more

We watched the sun come up
But took it down to hide it
Seems like the spring has come and gone
It felt like forever

I don't wanna talk about the world alright
I just wanna sleep with a smile tonight
And I don't wanna talk about the hungry people
People down and out I'll sleep when the sun goes down

When I wake up early in the morning
I don't watch the news I just get up with a smile by you
And I don't wanna talk about the war
I just wanna smile and smile some more

Well I feel fine I feel good
That's what happy people do and how are you

Let's watch the sun come up
To take it down and hide it
Seems like the spring has come and gone
It felt like forever

We watched the sun come up
To take it down and hide it
Felt like forever

Until the summer comes
Then you'll find me there

I'd like to try to forget that times
Have changed and we all live and die
Plastic soldiers
Never growing older/slowly growing older

I'm sorry for the love you lost today
But I'll thank you for the love I made today

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Portugal. The Man took 2017 by the horns after a considerably long gap, between records. They spent years working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin before later developing what would become known as their latest studio album WOODSTOCK. Fate struck lead singer, John Gourley, twice. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?,” John’s dad asked. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” The whole thing got John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and more importantly, about how to get off of it. Second, John found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival, which ultimately knocked something loose in his head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them.

With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and threw it out. The band went back to the studio – working with John Hill, Danger Mouse and longtime collaborator Casey Bates. In this new-found creative territory, the album that became WOODSTOCK rolled out naturally from there. Fast forward to present day and it was impossible to escape the album’s first single “Feel It Still,” which dominated the charts and radio airwaves in 2017. The 6X Platinum Certified hit reigned at #1 at nearly all radio formats, including Top 40, as well as Alternative, where the song held the chart’s top spot for a mind-blowing 20 weeks, breaking the record for most weeks at #1. Yes, you read that right. 5 guys from Wasilla, Alaska who have played nearly 1,500 shows in their career broke Alternative radio records and had a #1 song at Pop radio. Billboard Magazine even went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017,” while Rolling Stone listed it as “one of the best songs of 2017.” AND THEN…the band kicked off 2018 by winning a GRAMMY Award for “Feel It Still.” WOODSTOCK has since been certified gold, as has their second single “Live In The Moment”.

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