"a film by" "The sun rises on the city" "Which enchants me" "On my old Lisbon" "Of another era" "Like a lump of longing" "In my throat" "I listen to a fado that fades" "On departing" "Like a lump of longing" "In my throat" "I listen to a fado that fades" "On departing" "'Twas in the taverns of Alfama" "Out of sorrow" "That this song was born" "Its lament" "The memory of those departed" "Like the wind" "In the eyes of a loved one" "No forgiveness" "The memory of those departed" "Like the wind" "In the eyes of a loved one" "No forgiveness" "When the old flame or feeling burns" "I hear the roaring sea" "Whilst it sings" "And from Bica to Madragoa" "In a moment" "This anxiety returns always" "On leaving" "The sun rises on the city" "Which enchants me" "On my old Lisbon" "Of another era" "Those who live only in the past" "Without aim" "Are trapped in one destiny" "That invades them" "Fado emerged in the patios, brothels and taverns during the troubled early 19th Century..." "With the arrival in Lisbon of thousands of people... from rural Portugal and the Portuguese colonies in Africa and Brazil." "This type of music has survived to our time in its original form... and two centuries later, it is an inspiration... to the many Portuguese-speaking lands that contributed to its rise..." "SAN JON OF CAPE VERDE" "VARIATIONS" "MOZAMBIQUE" "Like the water from a spring" "My hand is transparent" "To my grandmother's eyes" "Between heaven and earth" "My black grandmother knew" "Those things about destiny" "Flowing into the ocean I see" "The rivers of that desire" "From which I was born to sing" "The Zambezi becomes the Tagus" "Sung about so much that I envy" "Lisbon for living there" "Lisbon for living there" "I see plaited hair" "And the warm song of fado" "In a shawl of curls" "Like in a fairy tale" "The African drums become guitars" "And the coconut trees, sunflowers" "My black grandmother knew" "How to read things about destiny" "In the palm At a glance" "Whether life wants it or not" "God told the sorceress" "That I was born to sing" "That I was born to sing" "MODINHA AND LUNDU" "Girl, you that have wealth" "That has grown weary of me" "Girl, you that have wealth" "That has grown weary of me" "Could it be because your little Negro" "Did not bow at your feet" "Could it be because your little Negro" "Did not bow at your feet" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Here I am" "Here I am" "Girl, you that have wealth" "Why do you cry What is wrong" "Girl, you that have wealth" "Why do you cry What is wrong" "If you cry, I am right" "You grow bored of me" "If you cry, I am right" "You grow bored of me" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Here I am" "Here I am" "Here I am" "Do not tell me why" "You did not greet me when I entered" "Do not tell me why" "You did not greet me when I entered" "Could your love" "For me be over" "Could your love" "For me be over" "Could your love" "For me be over" "Could your love" "For me be over" "Let us make up, my love" "Here I am on my knees" "Here I am" "Here I am" "MINOR FADO OF THE CITY OF PORTO" "The wind blows too hard" "For me to rest" "The wind blows too hard" "For me to rest" "Something in my mind" "Is going to stop" "Something in my mind" "Is going to stop" "Perhaps this soul thing" "Thinks life is real" "Perhaps this soul thing" "Thinks life is real" "Perhaps this calm thing" "Makes my soul live" "Perhaps this calm thing" "Makes my soul live" "A harsh wind blows" "I am afraid to think" "A harsh wind blows" "I am afraid to think" "My mystery deepens" "When lost in meditation" "My mystery deepens" "When lost in meditation" "Wind that passes and forgets" "Dust that rises and falls" "Wind that passes and forgets" "Dust that rises and falls" "Alas If I could know" "What goes on within me" "Alas If I could know" "What goes on within me" "MARIA SEVERA, NINETEENTH CENTURY" "Cry, fadistas Cry" "A fadista is dead" "It is a year today" "That Severa passed away" "The count of Vimioso" "A harsh blow suffered" "When he was told" "Your Severa has died" "Running to her grave" "Her body he still sees" "Farewell, my Severa" "God grant thee good luck" "Up in that heavenly kingdom" "With your banza in hand" "You will make fadistas of the angels" "Turn everything upside down" "Even Saint Peter himself" "Seated at gates of heaven" "On seeing Severa enter" "Clapped and sang fado" "Cry, fadistas Cry" "For the passing of Severa" "The soul of fado" "Without her is gone" "Oh, Capelão Street" "Banks of rosemary" "Oh, Capelão Street" "Banks of rosemary" "If my love arrives early" "I will kiss the stone floor" "He steps on his way" "If my love" "Arrives early" "I will kiss the stone floor" "He steps on his way" "I have my future set" "Since the moment I saw you" "I have my future set" "Since the moment I saw you" "My beloved gypsy" "To live embracing fado" "To die embracing you" "My beloved gypsy" "To live embracing fado" "To die embracing you" "My beloved gypsy" "To live embracing fado" "To die embracing you" "HOMAGE TO ALFREDO MARCENEIRO A nightingale told" "Old man of the woods" "That the most beautiful fishwife" "Was dying" "Of fatal love" "Rejected" "By a young troubadour" "With whom she fell in love" "Of fatal love" "Rejected" "By a young troubadour" "With whom she fell in love" "Singing as ever" "His gentle serenades" "On the banks of the Mondego" "The gentle troubadour" "Not caring for" "The poor dead girl" "Trapped by love" "In his generous songs" "And it is said that ever since" "A murmuring echo" "In the woods responds" "To the student band" "The voice of Tricana" "Who believes it is her lover" "Who sings her sad fate there" "Today" "Homage to Alfredo Marceneiro, street poet." "A carpenter all his life" "Singing fado to the death" "Sad fado" "Sad fado" "A carpenter" "A carpenter all his life" "Sad fado" "Sad fado" "I was not born with a hammer in my hand" "Nor did I follow my father's footsteps" "I did not want to be a cad but they spoke" "So many questions they asked What do you want to be, those words are easy" "I would rather run away in a balloon" "To search for my profession, vocation" "The path according to my instruction" "I found a book with no lines" "Loose words stashed in a trapdoor" "I sought the hammer I no longer had" "Put together the words and started building" "First idea I will make a window" "So that through it that truth" "That is not in novels may pass" "I was in the dark I lit a candle" "And felt the smell of sawdust and wanted to do the sequel" "When all of a sudden to my mind came an image" "Build a door to get out of this cell" "I am" "A carpenter to the death" "My blood flows and flows" "My love" "This fado also saves" "The day also consumes" "I am" "A carpenter to the death" "My blood flows and flows" "I ask for the flavors colors, pains" "Those were kept from my parents present and to come" "I cannot forget the crying marked on their faces" "The flame must not go out" "The bed needs another nail" "I surrender my body Fatigue is overcoming me" "I embrace my karma All that I know how to accept" "And need to become I need" "A sander in my hand Imperfections are smoothed" "I do not seek to be perfect but with time I soften" "Added value in each piece is my goal" "I have letters spread throughout my studio" "The reward is small whilst there is no money" "My head only thinks of having an idea first" "That is the life of the old carpenter" "I am" "A carpenter to the death" "My blood flows and flows" "My love" "This fado also saves" "The day also consumes" "I am" "A carpenter to the death" "My blood flows and flows" "He was given the gift of construction" "But with one condition- to not stop" "Using his heart with conviction" "A mission that he would not control" "A mission to sculpt a sensation" "Or a simple scene not in vain" "I always believe that I belong" "More simply here It 's like describing an emotion" "Let your mind wander Do not be afraid" "Of transforming what you feel into a job" "Write your vision Do not be blind" "Follow through with the hammer not the nail" "Breathe, stop, think" "Get out of that tension" "Believe with intense force" "And pay no attention to what others think" "The flame must not go out" "Not go out" "Out" "LISBON I hold the dawn" "As if it were a child" "A braided rosebush" "A hopeful vine" "Just like the body of the city" "That in the early morning rehearses the dance" "Of those who, out of sheer will" "Never tired of working" "I go down the street in this moon" "Which puts the Tagus on heat" "I wander Lisbon 's naked tide" "That flows to the Rossio" "I am a man in the city" "Who in the early morning wakes singing" "Because I love the freedom" "With which the city awakens" "I go down the street in awe" "Of the Lisbon full moon" "Until the enamored moon" "Grows on the sails of the canoe" "I am a seagull that defeats" "All bad weather at sea" "I am the man that carries" "The tide of frightened people" "And when I hold the dawn" "I pick the morning like a flower" "On the edge of deflowered pain" "A blue daisy" "The daisy of freedom" "That loves me like no other" "Daisy of this city" "That loves me" "That loves me" "In my hands the dawn" "Opened the April flower too" "The fearless perfumed flower" "That smelled of sea" "Well-loved flower of Lisbon" "Who loved me not" "Who loves me now" "HOMAGE TO LUCÍLIA DO CARMO 'Twas at Travessa da Palha" "That my lover, a bastard" "Broke my heart" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "At the cold tavern" "Amongst a lot of fado" "I confronted them without spite" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow" "Of my love" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow of my love" "'Twas at Travessa da Palha" "That my lover, a bastard" "Broke my heart" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "At the cold tavern" "Amongst a lot of fado" "I confronted them without spite" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow" "Of my love" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow of my love" "To see who was the better" "We dueled in song" "The other and I" "I out sang her by far" "Showing I was more fadista" "Proving I was more woman" "I out sang her by far" "Showing I was more fadista" "Proving I was more woman" "It is one of the scenes" "Of many in my life" "Those are never forgotten" "I only know that at dawn" "When it was all over" "We went home together" "I only know that at dawn" "When it was all over" "We went home together" "We went home together" "MINOR FADO" "Go back, life I have lived" "So I can see again" "Go back, life I have lived" "So I can see again" "That life lost" "That I never knew how to live" "That life lost" "That I never knew how to live" "To go back again I wish" "To that time How I miss it" "To return again I wish" "To that time How I miss it" "Spring always returns" "Only innocence does not" "Spring always returns" "Only innocence does not" "Time goes by" "And we delude ourselves" "Time goes by" "And we delude ourselves" "Laughing" "Crying" "Crying, laughing" "Laughing, crying" "Crying, laughing" "My God How time flies" "We sometimes say" "My God How time flies" "We sometimes say" "After all" "Time stands still" "We are the ones passing through" "After all, time stands still" "We are the ones passing through" "If I knew" "That young people die" "I would not love" "Anyone in this world" "If I knew" "That young people die" "I would not love" "Anyone in this world" "This dance" "Is the dream of my hope" "That has shown me" "That your love was false" "My flower" "This dance" "Is the dream of my hope" "That has shown me" "That your love was false" "My flower" "At our departure" "You cried" "I was touched" "And cried too" "This dance" "Is the dream of my hope" "That has shown me" "That your love was false" "My flower" "At our departure" "You cried" "I was touched" "And cried too" "This dance" "Is the dream of my hope" "That has shown me" "That your love was false" "My flower" "Love, when it reveals itself" "Doesn't know how to show itself" "It knows how to look at her" "But not how to speak" "Wanting to speak what he feels" "He is at a loss for words" "When he speaks it seems he's lying" "When quiet he seems to have forgotten" "Ah, if only she could guess" "If she could hear the look" "And what if one look were enough" "To know that she is loved" "But he who feels deeply silences" "He who wants to speak his feelings" "Leaving him without soul" "Nor voice" "Utterly alone" "HOMAGE TO AMÁLIA RODRIGUES" "It was in the dry wild leaves" "Oh, who gave you your name" "Loneliness" "Loneliness" "Know the word" "Before the sun goes down" "Like a dream of agony" "What weak eyes" "Loneliness" "Little Indian girl" "Oh, is it that fast?" "Little Indian girl" "Little Indian girl" "In the ash on the floor, deserted" "What are you thinking Think not" "Loneliness, loneliness" "Life is so secret" "Like the stars" "Like the stars in these ashes" "Like the stars" "Like the stars in these ashes" "Before the sun goes down" "Loneliness" "Loneliness" " This does not fit here?" " Yes, it' s very good." "So" "Only he could explain" "Who your destiny serves" "Without hurt, without joy" "Your heart so big" "So beautiful too" "It was God's will" "That I live with this anxiety" "All the laments are mine" "All the longing is mine" "It was God's will" "What a strange form of life" "Has this heart of mine" "It lives a lost life" "Who would give it order" "What a strange form of life" "Independent heart" "Heart that I do not control" "It lives lost amongst the people" "Stubbornly bleeding" "Independent heart" "I will not follow any longer" "Stop, cease beating" "If you do not care" "Where you are going" "Why do you insist on going on" "I will not follow you anymore" "REVOLUTION" "Grândola, Moorish town" "Land of fraternity" "The people are the authority" "Within you, town" "Within you, town" "The people are the authority" "Land of fraternity" "Grândola, Moorish town" "Oh, muse of my fado" "Oh, gentle mother of mine" "I leave you in sorrow" "On the first of April" "But do not be so ungrateful" "Do not forget one who loved you" "And who in your dense forest was lost and found" "This land will fulfill its ideal" "And yet become an immense Portugal" "You know" "Deep down, I am sentimental" "All of us inherit some poetry in our Lusitanian blood" "As well as the syphilis" "Even when my hands are busy" "Torturing, choking, destroying" "My heart closes its eyes and sincerely cries" "With ferns in the bush" "Rosemary in the cane" "Liquors in the moringa" "A tropical wine" "And the beautiful half-caste" "With lace from the Alentejo" "From whom I boldly steal a kiss" "This land will fulfill its ideal" "And yet become an immense Portugal" "My heart is serene in nature" "My hands rough and ready" "So much so that when all is done" "Lost, I object to myself" "If I carry my hands far from my chest" "It's the distance between my actions and intentions" "And when I squeeze my heart with my hands" "I'm haunted by the sudden feeling of incest" "When I find myself in the heat of a fight" "I hold up my fists" "But my heart is crushed" "And if the consequence expected is brutal" "The faster my blind hand delivers" "And then the heart forgives" "Guitars and concertinas" "Jasmine, coconut trees, fountains" "Sardines, cassava" "On a smooth blue-glazed tile" "And the Amazon River" "That runs through Trás-os-Montes" "And slowly joins the Tagus" "This land will fulfill its ideal" "And yet become an immense Portugal" "This land will fulfill its ideal" "And yet become an immense Portugal" "I carry a fado in my song" "I sing all night long" "Until day" "Of my people I bring mourning" "In my song" "Mouraria" "I miss myself" "My love" "True love" "I sing a country without end" "The sea, land" "And" "My fado" "My fado, mine" "Of me, only the I is missing" "Lady of my life" "Of the dream, I say it's mine" "And I am" "Already born" "I carry a fado in my song" "In my soul" "It's carefully kept" "To my surprise it comes from within" "Looking for" "My fado" "My fado, mine" "My fado, mine" "HOUSE OF FADOS" "A lost friendship" "Can never return" "It's a forged friendship" "That jokingly comes and goes" "It's a forged friendship" "That jokingly comes and goes" "No one gives a thing" "If behind that gesture there is no gain" "No one gives a thing" "If behind that gesture there is no gain" "Only a friend can" "Give love without receiving" "Only a friend can" "Give love without receiving" "My mother, I sing tonight" "For the day has punished me" "And in the silence of things" "I find a friendly voice" "And in the silence of things" "I find a friendly voice" "My mother, I cry tonight" "For the love I am drowning in" "For the words of life" "Have no other world" "For I am this song" "Mother, so hurt" "I wear this body at night" "Without fate, but with fado" "I wear this body at night" "Without fate, but with fado" "Maybe fado will tell me" "What no one wants to say" "That is why I chase it" "So that I may understand myself" "That is why I chase it" "So that I may understand myself" "My love, I have sung" "Under the last sky" "Because I surrender myself in every fado" "As if it were the first" "Maybe fado does not ask me" "For everything I give it" "So even when I forget" "It does not forget me" "So even when I forget" "It does not forget me" "I cried for not seeing you" "For seeing you, I now cry" "I cried for not seeing you" "For seeing you, I now cry" "Harder for wanting" "Wanting to see you all the time" "Time rushes past" "When you talk and I listen" "But the hours of our lives" "Each has a minute" "Stay beside me" "And never leave" "So that my heart, poor thing" "May live life in an hour" "So that my heart, poor thing" "May live life in an hour" "Do not be afraid of fame" "Ill-famed Alfama" "Do not be afraid of fame" "Ill-famed Alfama" "Fame sometimes defames" "Good, honorable people" "Fame sometimes defames" "Good, honorable people" "Fadistas, come with me" "Listen to the street fado" "Fadistas, come with me" "Listen to the street fado" "And sing a duel" "In a charming ancient quarter" "And sing a duel" "In a charming ancient quarter" "Let's go, as I have said" "You will see, when day dawns" "How fun the revelry was" "In the old Alfama quarter" "Do not be afraid of fame" "Ill-famed Alfama" "Do not be afraid of fame" "Ill-famed Alfama" "I know of the world you speak" "But surely I know wrong" "I know what the world is saying" "But surely out of spite" "For not always was it true" "The tales that were told" "For not always was it true" "The tales that were told" "Many people there lived" "Very quiet lives" "Which in a spiteful way" "Are muddied" "Fame" "Sometimes defames" "Good, honorable people" "Fame sometimes defames" "Good, honorable people" "This ballad is both yours and mine" "United by our destiny" "No matter how much is denied" "By the strings of a guitar" "Whenever we hear a lament" "Of a guitar playing" "We are soon filled" "With a longing to weep" "People of my land" "It's only now that I perceive" "This sadness which I carry" "Was from you received" "It would seem a kindness" "If I were able to soothe it" "And by releasing the sorrow" "Make my song less melancholy" "People of my land" "It's only now that I perceive" "This sadness which I carry" "Was from you received" "People of my land" "It's only now that I perceive" "This sadness which I carry" "This sadness which I carry" "Was from you received" "'Twas at Travessa da Palha" "That my lover, a bastard" "Broke my heart" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "Bringing with him another lover" "Swaggering, petulant" "Provoking" "At the cold tavern" "Amongst a lot of fado" "I confronted them without spite" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow" "Of my love" "For the woman he brought" "Certainly was not even" "A shadow of my love" "To see who was the better" "We dueled in song" "The other and I" "I out sang her by far" "Showing I was more fadista" "Proving I was more woman" "I out sang her by far" "Showing I was more fadista" "Proving I was more woman" "It is one of the scenes" "Of many in my life" "Those are never forgotten" "I only know that at dawn" "When it was all over" "We went home together" "I only know that at dawn" "When it was all over" "We went home together" "We went home together"