Confins
Ivan Lins
Confines
Nothing falls from the sky
Nor will it fall
Everything that is mine
I went to seek
I learned to live
And to walk
Among the good and the bad
And to guard myself
I keep tormenting myself
With my patches
To remind myself
That there are disagreements coming
That I have to face
This is what feeds me
Sustains me
Makes me love
In these confines of the world
Nothing will scare me
Nothing falls from the sky
Nor will it fall
Everything that is mine
I went to seek
I learned to live
And to walk
Among the good and the bad
And to guard myself
And every day I grow
With the stumbles
That God gives me
But there is no capoeira
To challenge me
I make the full moon
A lantern
To illuminate
The eyes of the enemy
Who may try to steal from me