Paquetá [English translation]

Ah, if I handle to hear another "no",

Maybe a "perhaps",

Or a "yes",

I deserve at last.

That's because I already know by heart

What's the "what" of the whiches

And howevers, of the akins, think carefully

Or don't think like that

I've dwelled on a schism, I know,

So many whinings and tantrums and that's all

What this insistence was and I didn't see

And I hesitated, I did the worst

The token I made out of love

I left it around

I slacked it off, almost dumped it

I wanted to drop it

But I didn't

I grabbed it in the air

And today I know

Without you I'm nothing

Oh! Don't leave me here, The calmness hurts I know

I'm lost

But I can only find myself in you

What a snub, an intrigue, "o ó" (something bad)

A whim, this feud and harm of the imbroglio

That quid pro quo

And from that this knot was made

And from that decoy I saw shining

From far away your lighthouse

My lost island is there

My sunset