I sing fado for me
Open the doors which give
out from the heart
And my pain without end
Living in this prison
Leave the prison, go away
Ai, my pain
Without your bitter mourning
I could not sing as I sing
In my embittered corner
Ai, my love
You are now what I suffer and cry?
In the end, I now adore
It is for you I sing fado!
I sing fado for me
I've sung it for the two of us
But that was in the past
Since it's so, let it be
Since you have forgotten me
Now each of us has our own fado
The happiest is yours, I 'am certain
It is an impoverished fado
Which takes away our happiness
If God so willed it
I don't envy you this achievement
Because mine is more fadista
It's the fado of nostalgia