Tudo Isto é Fado

All this is fado

You asked me the other day
If I knew what fado was
I said I didn’t know
You looked surprised
Not knowing what to say
I lied back then
And said I didn’t know
But I’ll tell you now

Defeated souls
Lost nights
Bizarre shadows
In the Moorish quarter
A drummer sings
Guitars cry
Love and jealousy
Ashes and fire
Pain and sin
All this exists
All this is sad
All this is fado

If you want to be my man
And have me by your side
Don’t just talk to me about love
Talk to me about fado too
It’s a song that’s my punishment
Only born to make me lose
Fado is everything I say
Plus what I can’t say.