Grito [English translation]

Silence!

Of the silence, I make a scream

My whole body hurts

Let me cry a little.

Wandering from shadow to shadow

There's repressed sky today

from shadow to shadow

I have lost my senses

Sky above, I claim

Here I miss light

Here I miss a star

And one cries more

when lives to follow it

And I,...

of whom sun has forgotten

Am the one whom the world lost

I only cry by now

Because the dead don't cry anymore

Loneliness!

Not even you are unabridged in me

There's always a companion

A deep bitterness

Oh loneliness,

you, who were scorpion

Oh loneliness,

and stinged yourself the head

Goodbye

I went away to far beyond this life already

For what I were someday, I feel thirsty already

I am sorrowful shadow,

laid in a wall

Goodbye

Life which so long lasts

Come, oh death, which so long dawdles

Oh, how it hurts in me

the loneliness, almost a madness

• Artist:Amália Rodrigues