As Certezas do Meu Mais Brilhante Amor [English translation]

The certitude of my brightest love

I am going to light up, should there be no moonlight tomorrow

And I will gather from a firefly a lonely glow

That the good bug may forgive me for this theft

Whistling the melodies ever more beautiful

And describing the cities I've ever seen

Of men and fossils and their gestures as written

Of good and evil, peace, calm and tumult

If I am alone it is in an alley that I meet myself

I go door to door asking who saw me

If I lived there, if I was the same and at what point

My desire packed its bags and fled.

Whistling the melody ever more beautiful

The certainty of my brightest love

Of the feeling among the others the favourite

That is to see the rose with time gain colour.

Whistling the melodies ever more brilliant

As brilliant from the certainty of a love

As the ruby most precious among others

That is of tenderness alternating with ardour.

I will not deny staying thus in this beauty

Whistling the melodies ever more fleeting

It is not possible nor is it simple, for sure

But it is will that gives me what I am doing.

• Artist:Cristina Branco
• Album:The Rough Guide to Fado