Puerto chords by Calexico

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Lupita’s ‘gonna weave a path to the land up north
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‘Gonna find her way through
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the thick of it all
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Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
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Hoping for a fallen star
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“Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en
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el
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puerto”

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Verse 2

Brought them gold from the coun

try to help cure their illness

But they landed with only one

purpose for conquest

Though there’s still this wave of unsettling

hunger that never disappears

Verse 3
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Rigo working one,
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two, three different jobs
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And when he comes back home
he welds into the night
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Builds an air balloon for his
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pickup truck
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‘Gonna fly up and over
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the wall
If everything stays exactly the same
Then nothing can move
and nothing can change
“Me siento ese pájaro que danza
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sobre el puerto”
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Carried ships from the sea up over the

Verse 4
mountains
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The warriors fell to their knees
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by the in visible virus
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And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that
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never
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disappears
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She’s talking on the phone in the heart of town

Verse 5
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To her Bachata Mama in the
heart of the world
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Saying “please come
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back to Santo Domingo
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Why you gotta be so far
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away”
If everyone stays exactly the same
Then no one can move and no one
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can change
“Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto”

Verse 6
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No one fortelling the depth
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and type of destruction
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Nor the sadness trapped on
the tongue of Malinche
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Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn
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out over the altar
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Blood running down the pyramid
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steps in the morning
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Codices lost to a language
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that’s been broken
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There’s this growing sense of impending anger