Lyrics and translation Miguel Araújo - Recantiga

Recantiga

E era as folhas espalhadas
Muito recalcadas do correr do ano
A recolherem uma a uma
Por entre a caruma de volta ao ramo
Era a noite a trovoada que encheu na enxurrada aquela poça morta
De repente, em ricochete, a refazer-se em sete nuvens gota a gota
E era de repente o rio
Num só rodopio a subir o monte
E a correr contra a corrente assim de trás para a frente a voltar à fonte
E um monte de cartas espalhadas des-desmoronando-se todo em castelo
E era a linha duma vida sendo recolhida de volta ao novelo
E era aquelas coisas tontas, as afrontas que eu digo e que me arrependo
A voltarem para mim como se assim
Tivessem remendo
E era eu, um passarinho caído no ninho à espera do fim
E eras tu
Até que enfim
A voltar para mim

Recantiga

And it was the scattered leaves
Much trodden down from the passage of the year
Gathering one by one
Through the brushwood back to the branch
It was the night the storm that filled in the flood that stagnant puddle
Suddenly, in ricochet, reconstituting itself in seven clouds drop by drop
And it was the river suddenly
In a single whirlpool ascending the mountain
And running against the current thus from back to front returning to the source
And a pile of scattered letters crumbling down into a castle all in one
And it was the line of a life being gathered back into a skein
And those foolish things, the affronts which I utter and regret
Returning to me as if in that way
They had been patched
And it was me, a little bird fallen into the nest awaiting the end
And it was you
At last
Returning to me