Vida [English translation]

Life, my life

Look at what I've done

I left the sweetest

Slice of my life

On the table of

The men of empty lives

But, life, maybe

I was happy there

Life, my life

Look what I've done

I spilled my life

On the corners, in the sink

At the house of

The vagabond men

But, life, maybe

I was happy there

Light, I want light

I know that there are blue stages

Beyond the curtains

And endless curtains

With stages behind them

Pull them out, life

And swell the veins

And pulse, pulse, pulse,

Pulse, pulse more

More, I want more

Even though all the boats

Go back to the pier

And the coast lighthouses

Send me signs

Pull out, life

And swell the veins

And take me, take me far away

Far away, take me further away

Life, my life

Look at what I've done

I touched the wound,

The nerve, the hair

The eyes of the men

With gloomy eyes

But life, maybe

I was happy there

• Artist:Chico Buarque