Chão de Estrelas Lyrics Translation in English

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Portuguese Lyrics

English Translation

Minha vida era um palco iluminado

My life was an illuminated stage

Eu vivia vestido de doirado

I lived dressed in golden

Palhaço das perdidas ilusões

Clown of lost illusions

Cheio dos guizos falsos da alegria

Full of false joy's jingles

Andei cantando a minha fantasia

I walked singing my fantasy

Entre as palmas febris dos corações

Amidst the feverish applause of hearts


Nosso barracão no morro do Salgueiro

Our shack on Salgueiro hill

Tinha o cantar alegre de um viveiro

Had the cheerful singing of an aviary

Foste a sonoridade que acabou

You were the sound that ended

E hoje, quando do sol, a claridade

And today, when the sunlight

Forra o meu barracão, sinto saudade

Covers my shack, I miss

Da mulher pomba-rola que voou

The dove woman that flew away


Nossas roupas comuns dependuradas

Our common clothes hanging

Na corda qual bandeiras agitadas

On the line like waving flags

Pareciam um estranho festival

Seemed like a strange festival

Festa dos nossos trapos coloridos

Party of our colorful rags

A mostrar que nos morros mal vestidos

Showing that in poorly dressed hills

É sempre feriado nacional

It's always a national holiday


A porta do barraco era sem trinco

The door of the shack had no latch

Mas a lua furando nosso zinco

But the moon, piercing our zinc

Salpicava de estrelas nosso chão

Sprinkled our floor with stars

Tu pisavas nos astros distraída

You stepped on the stars absentmindedly

Sem saber que a alegria desta vida

Without knowing that the joy of this life

É a cabrocha, o luar e o violão

Is the cabrocha, the moonlight, and the guitar

Added by Nuno Santos
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau August 2, 2024
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