Because of five gems...

Artista: Amália Rodrigues
Song: Lá porque tens cinco pedras
Traduzione: Portoghese → Inglese
Submitted by algebra on Dom, 09/01/2011 - 04:26
Traduzioni: Italiano

Portoghese

Lá porque tens cinco pedras

Lá porque tens cinco pedras
Num anel de estimação
Agora falas comigo
Com cinco pedras na mão!
Enquanto nesses brilhantes
Tens soberba e tens vaidade,
Eu tenho as pedras da rua
Pra passear à vontade!
Pobre de mim, não sabia
Que o teu olhar sedutor
Não errava a pontaria
Como a pedra do pastor
Mas não passas sorridente
Ah, lá de ar satisfeito
Pois hei de chamar-te a pedra
Pelo mal que me tens feito!
E hás de ficar convencido
Da afirmação consagrada:
"Quem tem telhados de vidro"
"Não deve andar à pedrada"

Inglese

Because of five gems...

Now because of five precious gems,
Adorning a new ring of yours,
Lately you're talking to me
Like you're throwing stones at me.
Whereas you find in these brilliants
Much pride and vanity,
I have all the streets of stone
To come and go as much as I please
Woe is me, I didn't know
That your seducing look
Always hits the bull's eye
As accurately as a shepherd's aim
But don't you dare pass by me,
Smiling from ear to ear,
With air of satisfaction in your face,
Because, surely, I'll throw a stone at you
For all the wrong you did to me
And then, you'll convice yourself
Of the truth in that old saying
" If your roof is made of glass..."
"Don't throw stones at your neighbor's house"

Author's comment:

This part can be also rendered as

Pois hei de chamar-te "a pedra"...
Because I shall call you "stone"...

Here literaly, I don't think it translates good to English

Eu tenho as pedras da rua pra passear à vontade!
I have the stones in the street to come and go as much as I please

I don't know why on earth the poet talks about the aiming skills of a shepherd. Probably because they are supposed to throw stones in other animals that stick around, willing to attack the flock...