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Music > Mar é Morada de Sodade

Composer: Armando de Pina
Performer: Cesária Évora
Language: CVC

Mar é Morada de Sodade

The Sea is the Home of Longing

Nun tardinha na kambar di sol

On an afternoon, at sunset

Mi t'andá na praia di Nantasket

Walking on Nantasket Beach [of Hull, MA]

Lembra'm praia di Furna

I was reminded of Furna Beach [of Brava Island]

Sodade fronta'm; N txorá.

Longing overtook me; I cried.

Mar é morada di sodade

The sea is the home of longing

El ta separá-nu pa tera lonji

It separates us in faraway lands

El ta separá-nu di nos mai, nos amigu

It separates us from our mothers, our friends

Sen serteza di torná enkontrá.

With no certainty of seeing one another again.

N pensá na nha vida mi só

I thought about my solitary life

Sen ningén di fé pertu di mi

Without a loved one close to me

Pa N ta odja kes ondas ta skebrá di mansinhu

Seeing those waves breaking softly

Ta traze'm um ar di sentimentu.

Brought me an air of emotion.