Текст песни Coimbra (Vagabond Opera) с переводом

The crooked streets of Coimbra

Smoking a cigar

The students singing fado

With a black look and guitar

The orange peel unwinding

In the robust underbelly

In the gilded maze of Coimbra

There’s a whore with an umbrella

And you drank too many ports

That bottle was a flirt

The African with half a face

Flicks ashes into dirt

Your compass is unpeeling

It’s hanging upside-down

The sinister cafe

Sings another round

And the cobbled streets pursue you

There’s a beckoning pinched face

At the end of gilded walkways

They put alleys into place

The bridge lurches into water

To escape your leg’s embrace

And she smiles a cracked smile

The prostituted daughter

Ah, my Severa

I long for Lisboa

The sheets on the bed are clean

You’ll be my countess

I’m carved in your shore

Shall I escort you to the ring

Severa

Beijinhos

Severa

Severa

Beijinhos

Severa

In the crooked streets of Coimbra

There’s an envoy of the ages

He kisses alleys with his cane

His sulphur lips are faded

Read a sonnet to a countess

His raspy breath in tongues

She breathed the air so long ago

Lies underneath the stones

The crooked streets of Coimbra

Are the arts of a black widow

She folds you into orange blossoms

Cradling the middle

Like a stillborn torn and stumbling

Into cracked and risky pavement

My brain is singing fado fast

The alleyways are mumbling

Like a tavern or a monastery

Sorting out its miscreants

Misfits of these alleyways

Hardening the ambiance

Then here comes a dreamless night

Here comes a dreamless night

I’ll only dream of crooked streets

And maybe of Severa

Ah, my Severa

I long for Lisboa

The sheets on the bed are clean

You’ll be my countess

I’m carved in your shore

Shall I escort you to the ring

Aaah!

Severa!

Beijinhos!

Severa!

Aah!

Severa!

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