Perdi a memória [English translation]

I've lost my memory,

My thoughts have become muddled!

I cannot tell my story:

I have lost all sense of time...

The mirror has cracked:

I don't know how I am,

I don't know whether I'm young or old...

I don't know where I am!

In my painting I only have

This vision.

So many eyes directed

Towards my hand!

It doesn't have a signal nor a position.

For good or evil, it doesn't have a membership card:

I don't carry the markings of loneliness,

Nor the raucous laughter of emotion...

I've lost my ability to reminisce!

From my mind, I have risked

That story for which I don't really care:

That history which I won't become!

I had cleaned my head

From all those things that it doesn't want

And I have made this promise to my body:

It's only useful for what I want!

Your image shall be

The one that befits me the most:

After escaping the blurriness

I didn't see anyone!

I don't want to see the mistakes I've made,

Neither do I want to have what I've already given!

I don't want to see the mistakes I've made,

Neither do I want to have what I've already given!

I had cleaned my head

From all those things that it doesn't want

And I have made this promise to my body:

It's only useful for what I want!

It's only useful for what I want...

It's only useful for what I want...

It's only useful for what I want...

I'm only useful for what I want!

• Artist:António Variações
• Album:Dar e receber (1984)