Recusa [English translation]

If to be a fadista is to be the moon

To lose the sunlight out of the sight

To be a statue that insinuates itself

Then I am not a fadista

If to be a fadista is to be sad

To be expected tears

And if fado exists in name of the sorrow

Then I am not a fadista

If to be a fadista are, at the bottom

Mocking words

Wandering from mouth to mouth in this world

Then I am not a fadista

But if it is to go in conquer of

So many ignored verses

Then I am not a fadista

I am the fado in person