"port of call" is a reference to "portus cale", the etymology and ancient name of "Portugal", actually an old city in the north after which the country is now named ("Cale" - the Port of Cale as derived from Latin).
Since there are always a lot of references to toponymies in Beirut's work, maybe the song was really made there ...
...cheers from Brazil! It'd be great to have a song named after any Brazilian place... perhaps Recife since the guys loved here =D
just adding my 2 cents ...
"port of call" is a reference to "portus cale", the etymology and ancient name of "Portugal", actually an old city in the north after which the country is now named ("Cale" - the Port of Cale as derived from Latin).
Since there are always a lot of references to toponymies in Beirut's work, maybe the song was really made there ...
...cheers from Brazil! It'd be great to have a song named after any Brazilian place... perhaps Recife since the guys loved here =D