Porquê Do Fado Lyrics in English Sara Correia

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Porquê Do Fado by Sara Correia from Portuguese to English.
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Don't ask me why fado
Ask Fado what it saw in me
How it found me and we've walked arm in arm
Since I can remember it's been this way
Don't ask me why I chose it
My heart was already talking to it and I listened
It was the song of the streets where I grew up
That cradled the song of my agony
Don't ask me why fado
Don't ask if I've made up my mind
It's no choice, it's being, it's a mark
You ask me why fado
You ask me why life
Don't ask if the sadness weighs on me
From these verses and such ancient poems
It's a song that's a prayer, it's a plea
That turns my demons into my friends
Don't ask me why I want to stay
When the whole world starts and ends right here
It was the one that saw me and came to get me
All those other lives I'd lived without knowing
Don't ask me why fado
Don't ask if I've made up my mind
It's no choice, it's being, it's a mark
You ask me why fado
You ask me why life
Don't ask me why fado
Don't ask if I've made up my mind
It's no choice, it's being, it's a mark
You ask me why fado
You ask me why life
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Agonia translates directly to "agony" in English. It's a strong and evocative word that immediately captures attention due to its intensity.

In "Porquê Do Fado," the singer uses agonia to describe the deep, almost painful emotion that the Fado music expresses and embodies. She sings about the "canto da minha agonia" (the song of my agony), suggesting that Fado is not just music, but a profound outlet for her deepest sorrows and struggles, making it a central theme of the song.

Sara Correia sings about a question she cannot really answer: why fado? The song frames fado not as a choice she made, but as something that chose her, calling back to the streets and songs she grew up around.

She describes fado as a companion through sadness, something that turns her own inner demons into friends rather than enemies. It is less a musical style to her and more a way of being, tied to her sense of who she is and to the lives she feels she has already lived.

By the end, the question in the title becomes almost the same as asking why she is alive at all, since for her the two are inseparable.

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