Banda da Ilusão

It's parade day and I can't be late
If I say I'm not going, the band comes to get me
In the middle of the show, I'll play my tuba
Through a pipe of longing, I'm blowing out my loneliness

Bottles thrown on the road, I've left behind
Empty of the certainty I sought with them
In the band of illusion, playing my tuba
I said yes, but life said no

There are so many instruments in life
And these distracted folks are carrying their cross
Some play everything and others play nothing
Keep playing on this road, if you don't play, you don't translate

I play this bitter pain, this desperate hurt
This will to live without any will
It's the law of life, babe, play to not die

My story is so big, there's hardly time to write
In the middle of a sentence, any day I'll die
And the debts that remain in my rosary, I'll pray
They're verses of a poem I couldn't even finish
At night I always sleep hoping to die
But soon the band comes waking me up to live
With no other solution, I grab the tuba
And I'll play in the band of illusion

There are so many instruments in life
And these distracted folks are carrying their cross
Some play everything and others play nothing
Keep playing on this road, if you don't play, you don't translate

I play this bitter pain, this desperate hurt
This will to live without any will
It's the law of life, babe, play to not die

My story is so big, there's hardly time to write
In the middle of a sentence, any day I'll die
And the debts that remain in my rosary, I'll pray
They're verses of a poem I couldn't even finish
At night I always sleep hoping to die
But soon the band comes waking me up to live
With no other solution, I grab the tuba
And I'll play in the band of illusion