Que silêncio é esta voz? [English translation]

What word is silence itself?

What silence is this voice

Which, in a suspended sob,

Weeps flowers within us?

I only know that in this destiny,

I seek out what I don't know...

I'm already feeling tired

Because of the steps I've never taken.

Ah! If a star

Would take me away now

With its light and, suddenly,

My shadow were filled with light!

I've arrived...

I've arrived after the stars,

But I corrected the mistake

By hoisting my sails...

Like the Virgin of Destruction,

Who is the moonlight of ruins,

I shall plant forests of bones

Where there were seven hills. 1

Once they consider me dead,

Tears... Not even a glass of liquor!

I have a four leaf clover

Under my tongue!

[Instrumental]

I walk across the linen fields

Of poet king Dom Dinis:

Throw a pine tree flower

And, where it falls, there's a country!

1. This refers to Lisbon, which just like Rome, was built across seven hills.