Maria Bethânia — Fado song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Fado" by Maria Bethânia.
Lyrics
Por quem tu te consomes, coração?
E somes nessas águas de arrebentação
Rolando ao sal dos sonhos, vai arrastando dores
Inaugurando mares com teu pranto de amores
Por quem te enclausuras na força das marés
E cantas sem ternura a luz dos cabarés?
Por quem tu te desvelas, coração?
E levanta as velas, vais na ventania
Sabendo do naufrágio que o tempo anuncia
Preferes a procela à paz da calmaria
Que anjo dissoluto põe tua embarcação
Na fúria dessas águas, longe da viração
Lyrics translation
Who do you consume yourself for, sweetheart?
And somes in these waters of bursting
Rolling to the salt of Dreams, will dragging pains
Inaugurating seas with your love weeping
By whom do you enclose yourself in the force of the tides
And you sing without tenderness the light of cabarets?
Who do you reveal yourself to, sweetheart?
And lift the candles, you go in the wind
Knowing of the wreck that time heralds
You prefer the procela to the peace of calm
What a dissolute Angel puts your vessel
In the fury of these waters, far from the turn