Quem mostra' bo
Ess caminho longe?
Quem mostra' bo
Ess caminho longe?
Ess caminho
Pa São Tomé

Sodade sodade
Sodade
Dess nha terra Sao Nicolau

Si bô 'screvê' me
'M ta 'screvê be
Si bô 'squecê me
'M ta 'squecê be
Até dia
Qui bô voltà

Sodade sodade
Sodade
Dess nha terra Sao Nicolau

Sodade – термин, встречающийся в креольском (sodade), португальском (saudade) и испанском (saudade) языках, и не имеющий аналогов во французском, английском и русском. Содад - смесь ностальгии, меланхолии и нежности, где ностальгия – своего рода чувство утраты настоящего. Иными словами любовь, только возникнув, осознает свою конечность и смертность и ностальгирует по себе самой нынешней, такой прекрасной...

who showed you,
who showed you this long way,
who showed you,
this long way for São Tomé?

Regret, regret
regret
on my earth from São Nicolau

if you write me
I'll write you
if you forget me
I'll forget you

until the day
when you're back

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little internet searching tells me that Sodade is a [bad word] word than just "regret." Apparently it is from the Portugese "saudade" which wikipedia (I know, bad source) says is, "... a Galician and Portuguese word for a feeling of longing for someone or something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return."