Cais de Outrora [English translation]

In the piers of yesteryears

There are empty vessels...

And forgotten rigs

Off shore!

There are dark rivers

To remember!

In the piers of yesteryears

There are only tired boats...

There are forgotten oars

For not departing

I feel a vague weariness

For pretending!

There are no boats, nor rigs,

There are no longer oars...

On the sea front of yore

I lost my dock!

In the night we lost ourselves,

And nothing more!

• Artist:Amália Rodrigues