He Said He Had a Story Lyrics

Lyric discussion by AdastraVerba 

Cover art for He Said He Had a Story lyrics by Dear Hunter, The

i think this is about Portly's experience with Ms.Leading because the song "This Beautiful Life" after is about The Boy, discovering such offensive things, and how he couldn't confront Portly, because every soldier had pride in him. The song is how he wants to go back to the home above the lake

I have always been under the impression this is in reference to Ms. Terri, actually. This is The Dear Hunter's father talking. Just a symbolic lyric "what was your name?" implies it's a mystery, as in Ms. Terri (heh heh)

and i feel awful for not knowing this, but who is portly??