Lyric discussion by Socodax 

Cover art for Children lyrics by Portugal. The Man

Some minor corrections again as I hear it.

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Burning the blood oil Salt sugar water pales Build me black jesus cause jesus can't save me Shackles pulling at your hair Shine me from roots out Wash me from the neck down Cut me in the fat stores Take me to the tree line

I'm a heading down down down down to the river cause I don't believe in medicine I'll crawl out shaking pale Always got the answer I got ears all around me

Burn up in black smoke Thick and pourin down your throat Make me of bread walks Listen up with ears we're diving

Birth me of blood oil Salt sugar water pales Build me black jesus Shackles pulling at your hair I'm a written page in a giant man Never sick in bed, so I'll never need their medicine

I'm a headin down down down down to the river cause I don't believe in medicine I'll crawl out shakin pale always got the answer I got ears all around me

Tell your children we got another year comin Oil stands the legs this body speaks in tongues and croaks "I'm heading down"

I'll walk down to the river where we met our pails Filled and spillin like our southern friends Met that pail atop the rocks and moss Grass grips licks about our heels and bends

I'm a heading down down down down to the river cause I don't believe in medicine When I crawl out I'll be shakin dirt Never need the answer I got hands all around me

Tell your children we got another year comin Oil stands the legs this body speaks in tongues and croaks "I'm heading down" Tell your children we spent a year in this fire Copper bands and hells getting lighter Line up in lines we can only get higher Tell your children we got another year coming

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I changed the first part because I hear him say "Burning the blood oil" more than "Birth me of blood oil" (although it's clear he says that later on." Also I changed "pales" to "pails", because in the second line of that verse, it talks about filling and spilling. Oh, and there was a line missing in there, "the I'm a written page" part.

As for interpretation, I'm thinking it has to do with oil in Alaska. Or just the people that work oil drills.