Conta Errada [English translation]

I learned to tell tales

In the school of tender age

It was later, still to the tales,

That I told tales with someone

You and I, in that hermitage,

We add up to happiness!

But one day I was followed

By treasons that life has

That they have more than life:

There was a man, I was tempted,

I summed up another false tale

I took the test, but I didn't pass!

One and one add up to two

And it is the sky, maybe.

There comes one more later

Two and one add up to three!

From the whole I drew the final lesson

To add, my love, I added,

But in love I failed

I did badly!

A treason, even to the traitors

Makes tales and true tales:

It multiplies our pains

And divides an affection!

In this height, you with me,

In reality, still remain!

I only ask you that, to the punishment,

You diminish what I say

In this black confession!

From a false woman that is sincere

Who awaits you but doesn't wait

To tell more tales with your pardon!

• Artist:Amália Rodrigues