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Artist: Sérgio Mendes
Canonical path: /sergio-mendes/what-is-this
Related lyric paths: 6
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What Is This?
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What Is This?
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You know those days when you don't feel good
And everything looks so sad
When you get up from your bed
It's in your left foot not knowing
What to do with your life
So you turn on the radio looking for music
But you can only hear waste, waste
Only waste
Then you return to bed
And decide to pay a visit for the places you've never seen before
And so you walk, you walk
So you walk and walk and walk and walk
When you look around you are in the place
You've never seen before before before before
Hearing the sound sound sound
Who makes you think you are in heaven
And so you ask ask ask
(I answer, brothers)
And so you ask, ask me
What does it mean
Don't you know this is like a flame my brother
Don't you know this is the music of the hour
Don't you know this is like a flame my brother
Don't you know this is the music of the hour
You know those days when you don't feel good
And everything looks so sad
When you get up from your bed
It's in your left foot not knowing
What to do with your life
So you turn on the radio looking for music
But you can only hear waste, waste
Only waste
Then you return to bed
And decide to pay a visit for the places you've never seen before
And so you walk, you walk
So you walk and walk and walk and walk
When you look around you are in the place
You've never seen before before before before
Hearing the sound sound sound
Who makes you think you are in heaven
And so you ask ask ask
(I answer, brothers)
And so you ask, ask me
What does it mean
Don't you know this is like a flame my brother
Don't you know this is the music of the hour
Don't you know this is like a flame my brother
Don't you know this is the music of the hour
Don't you know this is like a flame my brother
Don't you know this is the music of the hour
What is this?
We are in heaven
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Yes. The related section below points to (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay and Bananeira (Banana Tree) with a short reason for opening each page next.
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