Artist
Portair
Portair
Shrouded in mystery, Portair is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer from Sydney, Australia. Ambient and alternative, the identity of Portair is not the focus of the brand, but rather the sounds and lyrics.
atmospheric folk // ambient americana // spacey alternative
secret and anonymous .
For fans of: Novo Amor, RY X, Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Haux, Tall Heights
Featured Placements:
"Places" - Elementary (CBS)
"Those Three Words" - Chicago Fire (NBC)
Watch Portair's live stripped down video of his debut single "All I See":
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50% / Steven Mark Colyer [Colyer] (BMI) 50%
Description
Dreamy floating acoustic-guitar driven song about discovering the meaning behind someone in your life, for example a hard relationship but you learn so much from it that it was clear that person had a purpose in your life/ growth. BPM 87
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Point of View
Verse 1:
Moving Fast, moments always here and then escaping
I don’t look back, in my frame of mind I am retracing
OOo Ooo OOoPre
I guess I’ve been gone, I guess I’ve been gone
For so long, for so longChorus
I walked the ocean and swallowed the sea
Then all of its waves came crashing on me
Blind to the beauty that I never knew
Did I miss the point of viewVerse 2
Focusing, trying to capture everything existing
I cant sit still, If I don’t change the lens I’ll keep on drifting
OOo Ooo OOoPre
ChorusBridge
Running out, running out of time
Running out, running out of time
Am I close to breaking through?
Don’t want to miss my point of view -
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Brett Aaron Truitt (BMI) 50% / Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50%
Description
Lighthearted track with whistles and claps about following your dreams. BPM 116
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Used to race drops of rain
On the glass inside a car
Built model trains and paper planes
Just to see how fast and far
They could goI’ve read the books and I’ve learned all I could know
So I fold a page into wings out the windowWatch the paper in the sky float
I follow it wherever it goesA wooden bridge across the sea
That I would cross when I dream
The longer road that I would take
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50% / Dylan Nash (APRA) 50%
Description
Realizing that a relationship should end. BPM 130
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[VERSE 1]
Hollow frame
Window pane
Light through the rain
Entrance way
Picturesque
I took it away
Cut through the noise
I tend to bring the grey
Crossed a fine
Line that I
Drew in the first place[Chorus]
You should go
Yeah You
Maybe you should go
No no no
I sow salt into things I should grow
I’m like fire to snow
You should go[VERSE 2]
Ponder now
What I found
Cracks in the grout
Paving stones
Empty streets
And sad overtones
Drunk with the chills
It’s overkill to name
What it is
I cannot give
So whisk it away[Chorus]
You should go
Yeah You
Maybe you should go
No no no
I sow salt into things I should grow
I’m like fire to snow
You should go[BRIDGE]
Before I turn this place to a forest fire
And I take all the wonder from your eyes
I don’t know why but I seem to do it every, seem to do it every timeThere’ll be no shelter from the flames
So just close the door
Don’t come back again
Don’t come back again[Chorus]
You should go
Yeah You
Maybe you should go
No no no
I sow salt into things I should grow
I’m like fire to snow[OUTRO]
Ohh Ohh
Yeah You
Maybe you should go
Ohh Ohh
You Should go -
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50% / Adam Melchor (BMI) 50%
Description
Regretting your decision to leave someone behind. BPM 82
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Tiny little specks amung the grass
With the blades against our backs
We were absolutely made of glass
Something beautiful that I let crack
I wanted those three words but all you hadWas ‘you’re too late’
‘You’re too late’
I can’t make you want what you don’t
When you say
That ‘you’re too late’
I guess I’m too lateA star dims duller when you’re gone
fault lines trace the hollow place
Where you’d lay in my embrace
Your star dims in heights too great
Something beautiful that takes me into space
So far away from what I heard you sayI saw this picture different
And now I see it from a distance
I took the frame away
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50% / James Derio Droll (BMI) 50%
Description
journeying through life, holding on to nothing. BPM 118
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Places
VERSE
‘you’re not the street that you’re born to
You’re not the arms that hold you
you’ve got two feet to ten toes’
But you don’t know what you don’t knowCHORUS
some go high
some go low
Keep in mind
places you’ll gosome get high
some follow
Keep in mind
Keep in mindTAG
Ohh the places you’ll go
VERSE
You’ve got a house on your own street
old coffee grounds on your new sheets
The bridges you’re walking, the bridges you’ve burned
Loss is your neighbour who feels your concernBRIDGE
You leave a part of you wherever you may go
You leave a part of you with those that need it most
Cause the world is full of faces that you may never know
And some will leave you words when you need them the most
You’ll leave a part of you, when you go -
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 33.40% / John Thomas Roach [JT Roach] (ASCAP) 33.30% / David Franklin Sandborg [David Frank] (ASCAP) 33.30%
Description
Feeling comfortable in a relationship and seeing a future in it
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In out of history
Feel a little warmer when you're next to me
Perfected, call it heavenly
Lights go down
Sky to groundI feel your weight against mine
Cover my eyes
Press your lips into mineCause' all I see is
You
Feel like it takes me
Too long
To get out of the Madness
Tied to my chest
The subtle of sadness
Left in a breath
When I’m with
YouThe manner of a mystery
Shattered in cloud, this is everything
Connected by the chemistry
Ocean ground
Let me drownCause' when I think of future
I never get past you and I -
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 25% / James Derio Droll (BMI) 25% / Ivy Adara (APRA) 25% / Justin Thomas Roach (ASCAP) 25%
Description
Mentally escaping a relationship gone bad
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i hate the taste in my mouth when i wake up next to you
but i lean into the sun if it’s you i’m getting closer to
i feel it in my bones, and they feel me getting older
i breathe new life into this house i built of stonethe cracks in my lips start to bleed
i poison my lungs when i breathe
my arm’s fast asleep next to me
i send my mind, out to sea
wake up with fuzzy teethi tend to stick to dark corners so i can’t see what i lose
I hope the light don’t touch me like you want it to
the faster that i drove, and the further i’m from home
gives me a comfort that i never knew i’d know -
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Andrew Southwell (APRA) 50% / James Derio Droll (BMI) 50%
Description
Soft, piano driven track about losing track of time
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If I could listen
If you could speak
Our silence isn’t
What makes us weakWe hold onto our words so precious as they fight to leave our mouths
Dance across our tongues as though we’re trying hard to reach outBring me to your eyes
I’ll lend you both my hands
Remember bluer skies
When no one had their plans
If we could lose our way
Color out the lines
If we could go awayCould we get lost
The books we’ve written
The pages we keep
The lines that make
Fall to our kneesCause i’m blind to the silence
And your teeth grit with violence
Lose our minds to the mindless -
