Sombras di Distino [English translation]

To leave for a distant land

was always my illusion

And here I am finally

With a forced smile,

Bitter and sad

I will wander from sea to sea

I will travel from wind to wind

Searching for a future

Amidst the shadows of the destiny

My life is an endless toing and froing

It's the fate of a Cape-verdian son

To live an unconstant peace

Like the fate of a gypsy

I will live with torments

In a world filled with evil

My destiny is so hurt and sorrowful

Into a silence of longing