Paramparça [English translation]

I have no watch, I can't quite tell the time.

A little beer, a little wine beforehand.

How is it that while time just doesn't pass,

Years, lives pass you by?

I'm like a lost suitcase in the airport,

Or an empty pool during the fall.

Is it really so rude to still want happiness?

Oh, I don't have the energy anyhow.

Today's my birthday,

I'm both drunk and sick.

I'm sitting on a bar stool.

I'm at the same age my father died.

Today's my birthday,

The words are growing in my mouth.

All the lives I have known...

All in pieces! All in pieces!

I don't have the strength, I've clung to the phone again,

Just for one last plea from all the women I've loved.

I called them, the answering machines came up, I hung up.

I'm no good with speaking at the telephone machine.