Righteous Life - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

I rode on your highways

Played cards with some of your gods

Kicked a long stone at sunset

Watched the ways you smile and nod

You smile and nod

It’s a righteous life we’re leading friends

Heavy dues, pay the fee

But no one else notices

Destiny except the free, except the free

You can tell it in a smile sometimes

Arrogance, haughty, and cruel

Smiling at some stranger

Like a tarot deck card fool

It’s a righteous life we’re leading friends

Heavy dues, pay the fee

But no one else notices

Destiny except the free, except the free

Stories that they’re weaving now

Are part fiction, sometimes ruse

You can tell where the real part ends

And it’s time to ask for truth, to ask for truth

To ask for truth

It’s a righteous life we’re leading friends

Heavy dues, pay the fees

But no one else notices

Destiny except the free, except the free