Amalia Rodrigues: Rainha do Fado

I told you I died and Goodbye
(.........................)


I told you goodbye and die
And the empty dock you
Accepted new tides.
Cries of whelks lost
The man of my senses,
The seagull who you are.


Gull wings stained,
What nights do not feel
And wakes up at night crying.
Seagull makes a nest
Because he lost the way
Where did you learn to dream.

Trapped in the belly of the sea
My breathing sad
Suffers hours of the invention.
Well, you left in the absence,
My love, how did you get?
My love, as it takes!


Strange Form of Life
(Alfredo Duarte - Amália Rodrigues)

It was the will of God
I live in this anxiety.
What are all my woes,
That is all my longing.
It was the will of God.

What a strange life form
Has this heart of mine:
Lives lost form;
Who would give you the bullet?
What a strange way of life.

Heart independent
Heart that does not command:
Lives lost between us,
Stubbornly bleeding
Heart independent.

I do not go with you more:
Stop, stop hitting.
If you do not know where you are going,
Why insist on running,
I do not go with you more.