If you went down to the bottom | If you went down to the bottom of my sadness

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by Sérgio Milliet (da Costa e Silva) (1898 - 1966)

Translation © by Diana Danieli

Se descesses ao fundo

Language: Portuguese (Português)

Our translations: ENG

Se descesses ao fundo de minha tirsteza
Ao fundo ainda nao chegarias,
Por isso se me vires rir, nao creias, nao te iludas.
Ha miragens, por certo, no areal sem fim.

Text Authorship:

by Sérgio Milliet (da Costa e Silva) (1898 - 1966) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907 - 1993), "Se descesses ao fundo", 1948 [voice and piano], from Tres poemas de Sérgio Milliet, no. 2. [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Diana Daniel) , title 1: "If you went down to the bottom", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Diana Danieli

This text was added to the website: 2010-11-15
Line count: 4
Word count: 31

If you went down to the bottom

Language: English after the Portuguese (Português)

If you went down to the bottom of my sadness
To the bottom you still wouldn't get,
So if you see me laugh, don't believe, don't delude yourself,
There are mirages, surely, in the the endless sands.

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Based on:

a text in Portuguese (Português) by Sérgio Milliet (da Costa e Silva) (1898 - 1966)
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-15
Line count: 4
Word count: 37