Who is Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado, with full name Nelly Kim Furtado was born on December 2, 1978. She is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist with Portuguese roots.

Her parents, Maria Manuela and António José Furtado are Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, who moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where Nelly Furtado was born.

She started to sing and play different musical instruments very early, and during a visit to Toronto the summer of 1996, Nelly Furtado met Tallis Newkirk, member of the hip hop group 'Plains of Fascination'. She contributed vocals to their 1996 album, Join the Ranks, on the track "Waitin' 4 the Streets".

In 2000 her first album Whoa, Nelly! came out.

All I know
Is everything is not as it's sold
but the more I grow the less I know
And I have lived so many lives
Though I'm not old
And the more I see, the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try

I wish I hadn't seen all of the realness
And all the real people are really not real at all
The more I learn the more I cry
As I say goodbye to the way of life
I thought I had designed for me

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
I'm all I'll ever be
But all I can do is try
Try

All of the moments that already passed
We'll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be
And that's wonderful, and that's life
And that's you, baby
This is me, baby
And we are, we are, we are, we are
Free
In our love
We are free in our love

In the day
In the night
Say it all
Say it right

You either got it
Or you don't
You either stand or you fall
When your will is broken
When it slips from your hand
When there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan

Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
Do you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

I can't say that I'm not lost and at fault
I can't say that I don't love the light and the dark
I can't say that I don't know that I am alive
And all of what I feel I could show
You tonite you tonite

From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?

Honestly what will become of me
I don't like reality
It's way too clear to me
But really life is daily
We are what we don't see
We missed everything daydreaming

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
(come to an end, come to an end
Why do all good thins come to an end)x2

Travelling I always stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less
I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
(come to an end, come to an end
Why do all good thins come to an end)x2

The dogs were whistling a new tune
barking at the new moon
hoping it would come soon so that they could die

The dogs were whistling a new tune
barking at the new moon
hoping it would come soon so that they could die

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
(come to an end, come to an end
Why do all good thins come to an end)x2

Well the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day until the feeling
went away
And the sky was falling
And the clouds were dropping and the...
The rain forgot how to bring salvation
The dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die