A Paz [English translation]

Peace has invaded my heart

Suddenly I was filled with peace

It was as if the wind of a typhoon

had plucked my feet off the ground,

which I will never bury myself in anymore

Peace made a sea of revolution

invade my destiny

A peace like a big explosion

Like that bomb over Japan that

gave birth to the Japan of peace

I thought of myself

I thought of you

I cried for us

What a contradiction

Only war transforms

our love into peace

I ended up in the quay

Where the road ends

Where the evening is lilac

Where the sea bursts in me

the lament of so many "woes"

• Artist:Gilberto Gil