Timoneiro
Paulinho da Viola
Helmsman
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
And the more I row, the more I pray
To never end
This journey that makes
The sea around the sea
My old man once said
In his way of warning:
Look, the sea has no hair
That we can grab
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
I've never been a helmsman
Because I'm not one to sail
The rudder of my life
God is the one who governs
And when someone asks me
How to swim
I explain that I don't navigate
Who navigates me is the sea
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
The net of my destiny
Looks like a fisherman's
When it returns empty
It comes loaded with pain
I live in a whirlpool
God knows well what he does
The wave that carries me
It's the same one that brings me
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
It's not me who navigates me
Who navigates me is the sea
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
It's him who carries me
As if he wasn't going to take
