O Tempo Me Guardou Você (Time Guarded You for Me) is a Brazilian MPB ballad by Ivan Lins, with lyrics by Ivan Lins and Celso Viáfora. The song tells a love story that feels fated—two people who already loved each other before meeting, and a sense that time itself kept them together until happiness could arrive. The refrain repeats that time guarded you for me and asks you not to lose the future they share. It was first published in 2005 and later appears on the 2007 Som Livre album Eterna Magia as track 6. The tune sits firmly in MPB and Brazilian pop, and was written by Ivan Lins and Celso Viáfora with editors Oilua and Sony Music UBC.
