Sheryl Crow Fadista lyrics

Absinthe slew my abstinence

And my appetites they followed

Once you've used your forbidden teeth

All bitterness seems hollow

Chew it up to spit it out

Just like there's no tomorrow

Beauty's taken a beating round hear

Ever since the death of Fado

From this shore I seek good tides

I can see all the way to Jersey

I'm at the edge of the things I find

But my solitude is not worried

You could be my invisible star

Our mysterious lady of the sorrows

But I will not build a shrine to you

Of all the dust I've swallowed
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The silver's all been emptied out

From the vaults of old Chiado

Beauty's taken a beating round here

Since the long, slow death of Fado

On the street that night, I heard her sing

Her arms wrapped round her boombox

Stood with sunglasses and black hair

Two men her sentries, silent

Her song was of a river town

And the blind fadista's honor

Beauty's taken a backseat to pain

Ever since the death of Fado

But I trust you will choose beauty again

Just like there's no tomorrow