Mariza
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Transparente Lyrics English translation

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Mariza - Transparente

Como a água da nascente
Minha mão é transparente
Aos olhos da minha avó. Entre a terra e o divino
Minha avó negra sabia
Essas coisas do destino.
Desagua o mar que vejo
Nos rios desse desejo
De quem nasceu para cantar. Um Zambéze feito Tejo
De tão cantado q'invejo
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E o canto morno do fado
Num xaile de caracóis. Como num conto de fadas
Os batuques são guitarras
E os coqueiros, girassóis. Minha avó negra sabia
Ler as coisas do destino
Na palma de cada olhar. Queira a vida ou que não queira
Disse deus à feiticeira
Que nasci para cantar.
Que nasci para cantar

English translation

Mariza - Transparent (English translation)

Like water from the fountain...
My hand is transparent
to my grandma's winsdom

Between earth and heaven,
my black grandma knew how to tell
Things about destiny.
The sea before my eyes flows
into rivers of this desire in me,
The desire of those, born to sing

This Tejo, as beautiful as the Zambéze,
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That I even envy Lisbon, for living so close to it

I see a braid of hair
And the warm tune of fado
in a shawl of snails

Like a fairytale,
Drums are guitars
And palm-trees are sunflowes

My black grandma knew how
To read secrets about the one's destiny...
By a mere look in the eyes

If life wants it or not
God told the witch
That I was born to sing

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