Your Place or Mine

[Intro: pandeiro and nylon guitar, spoken] Oi (Oi) [Verse 1] I'm on fourteen on Augusta, you're on fourteen facing me Four lanes of buses in between, a thousand motorbikes at least So I wrote OI on a pizza box and held it to the glass And you vanished for a minute, then you wrote it back, and fast Now every night at nine o'clock I'm leaning on the pane With a marker and a stack of boxes, and you don't even know my name [Pre-Chorus] Big letters, big letters So you can read me from there Big letters, big letters All the words I'd never dare [Chorus: group answers] Your place or mine (your place or mine) Fourteen floors and four lanes in between Your place or mine (your place or mine) I write it big so you can read me Every night a little marker, every night another sign And the whole of Rua Augusta in the way of your place or mine [Verse 2] Monday, WHAT'S YOUR NAME, and you wrote back, YOU GO FIRST So I wrote TIAGO, you wrote LUANA, in a heart, and I nearly burst Tuesday, YOUR PLANT IS DYING, and you wrote back, IT'S FAKE Wednesday, NICE SHIRT, and you wrote back, BIG MISTAKE Thursday, there's a man in your kitchen, so I wrote, WHO'S THE GUY And you wrote, MY BROTHER, RELAX, and the whole street heard me sigh [Pre-Chorus] Big letters, big letters So you can read me from there Big letters, big letters All the words I'd never dare [Chorus: group answers] Your place or mine (your place or mine) Fourteen floors and four lanes in between Your place or mine (your place or mine) I write it big so you can read me Every night a little marker, every night another sign And the whole of Rua Augusta in the way of your place or mine [Bridge: drums drop to pandeiro and guitar] Saturday, I wrote COFFEE, with a question mark as tall as me And you wiped the board and wrote two words, LOOK DOWN, and I couldn't breathe There you were on the sidewalk with two coffees in your hands And the elevator's stuck on nine, so fourteen floors, I ran [Verse 3: full band back] I hit the lobby in my socks, and you look me up and down You say, I thought you'd be taller, and I say, I thought you'd wear a crown Then you hand me a coffee, and you hold up one more sign Just a napkin in your writing, and it says, YOUR PLACE OR MINE [Final Chorus: group answers] Your place or mine (your place or mine) Fourteen floors and four lanes in between Your place or mine (your place or mine) Now I don't have to write it, you can read me Every night a different window, every night a different sign And the doormen in both buildings taking bets on your place or mine [Outro: pandeiro and nylon guitar, spoken] (Mine) Okay