Cantiga do Estradar

Song of the Road

Cantiga do Estradar

It's been seven times closingTá fechando sete tempo
That my life is to walkQui mia vida é caminhá
Jumping the roads of the worldPulas istradas do mundo
Day and night without stoppingDia e noite sem Pará

I've already visited the seven kingdomsJá visitei os sete reino
Where I had to singAdonde eu tinha qui cantá
Seven drops of poisonSete didal de veneno
I swallowed without blinkingTraguei sem pestanejá

I see only harder painsMais duras penas só eu veno
Another Christian to endureÔtro cristão prá suportá
I'm a brother of sufferingSô irirmão do sufrimento
With a heavy heart full of painDe pauta vea cum a dô

I gathered in the learningAjuntei no isquicimento
What destiny keptO qui o baldono guardô
My masters were the road and the windMeus meste a istrada e o vento
Who in life taught meQuem na vida me insinô

I'll remember on the journeyVô me alembrano na viage
The paths I've walkedDas pinura qui passei
Of those hard passagesDaquelas duras passage
In the places where I've beenNos lugar adonde andei

Just thinking gives me chillsSó de pensá me dá friage
In the successes I've achievedNos sucesso qui assentei
In my memoryNa mia lembrança
Legion of the condemnedLegião de condenados

Chained in shacklesNos grilhão acorrentados
In the darkness of ignoranceNas treva da inguinorança
Without the light of the Great KingSem a luz do Grande Rei
All this I saw in my wanderingsTudo isso eu vi nas mia andança

In the times when I wanderedNos tempo qui eu bascuiava
The foreign pathO trecho alhei
I've been back for a whileTô de volta já faz tempo
Since I left my placeQue deixei o meu lugá

This happened when I was youngIsso se deu quando moço
When I went to searchQui eu saí a percurá
In the illusions that are in the worldNas ilusão que ai no mundo
In the mist that is over thereNas bramura qui ai pur lá

I jumped deep into the wellsSaltei pur prefundo os pôço
That the Devil has over thereQui o Tinhoso tem pur lá
Jesus saved me from the devilJesus livrô derna d'eu môço
When he tried to catch meDo raivoso me panhá

I've been through so many trialsJá passei pur tantas prova
There are still trials to faceInda tem prova a infrentá
I'll keep singing my versesVô cantando mias trova
That I gathered on the wayQui ajuntei no caminhá

In the sky I see the new moonLá no céu vejo a Lua nova
Company of the roadCumpanhia do istradá
He taught us to liveEle insinô qui nóis vivesse
Life here is just to pass byA vida aqui só pru passá

We then invitedNóis intonce invitasse
The evil desire and the heartO mau disejo e o coração
We purified ourselves to be whiteNóis prufiasse pra sê branco
Even purerInda mais puro

Like the cotton capQui o capucho do algudão
That if not gathered, dividedQui nun juntasse dividisse
Nor denied to those who askedNem negasse a quem pidisse
Our love, our goodNosso amor o nosso bem

Our land, our forgivenessNossos terém nosso perdão
Only then we see the hidden faceSó assim nóis vê a face ocusta
Of the one who dwells in the high heavensDo qui habita os altos céus
The Merciful, the Meek and JustO Piedoso o Manso e Justo

The Faithful and compassionateO Fiel e cumpassivo
Lord of the dead and the livingSinhô de mortos e vivos
Our Father and our GodNosso Pai e nosso Deus
He said he would returnDisse qui havéra de voltá

When this sinful earthQuando essa terra pecadora
Marked by transgressionMargúiada em transgressão
Was full of violenceTivesse cheia de violença
Of plunder, of lies, and thievesDe rapina de mintira e de ladrão