Amendoeira

from Here Comes A Special Boy? by Mattie Konig

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I’m going down the Algarve
(To the Amendoeira golf resort)
For a half-week of sun and sand
(In a four bedroom house with a swimming pool)

Wouldn’t you like to come down
(Heróis do mar nobre povo)
To this olive and pleasant land
(Where the sun always shines but sets fast)

But before we get there
We’ve still got to get through
All the airborne hurdles
And our flight’s departing now

I’m shopping in the Algarve
(You could stop and try the fruit from the orange groves)
But my mind is all at sea
(Or a greasy bucket of Portuguese chicken slop)

Why won’t you let me know
(You could stop at five or six stores or maybe just one)
What the hell is wrong with me
(And prepare for the words “I think she’s actually a man”)

Roadside stalls
Open air malls
Room service calls
Eighteen over par

Chapel of skulls
Sandy shores
City walls
Old rental car

All this and more
All this and less
All of this goes straight through my head
Through the cracks in my mind

Oh my Amendoeira
Farewell my Amendoeira

I’m gonna miss the Algarve
And her promise of sun and sand
I hope I come back one day
To this olive and pleasant land

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from Here Comes A Special Boy?, released September 24, 2016

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