English text by David Mendonça
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Closed Case - Caso arrumado
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I
hadn’t seen you in almost a month.
You
arrived, and one more time,
You were
well acompanied.
You sat
down at my table
With all
the certainty
That our
case was closed.
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She
didn’t want to hear me,
but you
asked with a smile
for our
favorite fado.
I did it
for you, I sang,
And when
I came back to the table
She had
already gone.
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It’s not the first time
That we
started as three.
I sing
and then, after,
That
fado that I’ve sung
becomes a
blessed remedy.
And it
ends with the two of us.
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I
know that you’ll be back
To once
again use
this case
with no solution.
I will
sing our fado:
your case
will be closed,
but our case, not.