Desfado [English translation]

It's my destiny's wish that I don't believe in destiny

My fado song1 is to have no fado song to sing

It's to sing it without having even felt it

To sense it like no one else, but being senseless at the same time

Oh how sad this joy that I have is

Oh how glad, this deep sadness!

To wait that someday I won't be wainting one more day

For someone that never arrives and that has been present here

Oh how I long

To have something to long for

To have longings for someone

That has been here and does not exist

To feel sad

Just because I'm feeling so well and happy

To feel happy

Just because I'm feeling so sad

Oh If only I could sing no more "if only I could"s

And feel sorry just for not having anything to be sorry about

Maybe I could hear, then, as I fell silent,

A voice of my own here inside me, singing about someone

Oh what misfortune, this good luck befallen on me!

Oh what good luck to live in such an unfortunate manner

With the incertitude that no thing is more certain

Than the great incertitude of being certain about nothing

1. It's possible as well this one: "It's my fate to have no fado song to sing"

• Artist:Ana Moura
• Album:Desfado (2012)