Gilberto Gil: “Andar Com Fé” (1982)
Brazilian legend and Caetano Veloso collaborator Gilberto Gil’s sometimes political and topical songs led to his arrest by the Brazilian military and eventual exile to England, where his career continued both as musician and social activist.
“Andar Com Fé” is not one of Gil’s more subversive tunes, unless catchiness is a crime. It translates thusly:
I’ll walk with faith/Faith doesn’t usually fail
Faith is in a woman/Faith is in the coral snake, in a piece of bread
Faith is in the tide, in the dagger’s blade, in light, in darkness
Faith is in the morning, Faith is in nightfall, Faith is in the summer heat
Faith is alive and healthy, Faith is also about to die, sadly in solitude
Right or even wrong, Faith goes wherever I go, on foot or by airplane
Even those who don’t have Faith, Faith usually follows
Through yes and through no
Every Moment Has A Song 