Amélia dos Olhos Doces

Amelia with sweet eyes
Who brought you here, pregnant with hope?
A taste of flower on your lips
On your skin and clothes, scents from France

Hair like a widow's
Hair like rain, strappy shoes
And how many times
You don’t want and don’t love
The men who sleep
The men who sleep with you in bed

Amelia with sweet eyes
If only you were just a woman
Amelia with sweet eyes
If only you had the right to live

Hair like a widow's
Hair like rain, strappy shoes
And how many times
You don’t want and don’t love
The men who sleep
The men who sleep with you in bed

Amelia the seagull, lover, poet
Rose of coffee
Amelia the joker, from the tin neighborhood
From Cais do Sodré

You have a name like a ship
Your body is a river where thirst flows
Sweet eyes, who would’ve thought
That love was born where Amelia dies

Hair like a widow's
Hair like rain, strappy shoes
And how many times
You don’t want and don’t love
The men who sleep
The men who sleep with you in bed