Dois Corações Partidos – Bilingual Lyrics Portuguese/English

• By: Joana Almeirante, Samuel Úria

Lyrics & Translation

[Portuguese]

[English]

Eu de coração desfeito

With a broken heart

Um farrapo em vez de um peito

A rag instead of a chest

E uma dor que já nem dói

And a pain that no longer hurts

Eu a chorar pelos ombros

I cry on the shoulders

Dos meus amigos todos

Of all my friends

E de quem nem conheço bem

And of those I don't even know well

Eu a tentar perceber

I try to understand

A tentar esquecer

I try to forget

A tentar, tentar

I try, try

Vi-te enfim

I saw you at last

Eu de coração quebrado

With a shattered heart

Destruído amarrotado

Destroyed and crumpled

Já sem querer saber de amor

No longer wanting to know about love

Eu a chorar pelos cantos

I cry in the corners

E os cantos foram tantos

And there were so many corners

Que entretanto já secou

That in the meantime, it has dried up

Eu que dizia ter fechado

I who said I had closed

O coração a cadeado

My heart with a padlock

E deitado a chave ao mar

And threw the key into the sea

Vi-te enfim

I saw you at last

E foi assim que tu e eu

And that's how you and I

Voltámos a arriscar

Dared to take a chance again

Os dois feridos em combate

Both wounded in battle

Voltámos a lutar

We fought again

E nesse repto derradeiro

And in that final challenge

De dois corações partidos

Of two broken hearts

Fizemos um inteiro

We made one whole

Eu a querer saber de cor

I wanting to know by heart

Mil canções de desamor

A thousand songs of heartbreak

Por falarem só de mim

For they only speak of me

Eu que dizia estar doente

I who said I was sick

Pra não sair e não ver gente

To avoid going out and seeing people

Pra ninguém me ver assim

So no one would see me like this

Eu a deixar de ir ao cinema

I stopped going to the cinema

Por ver romance em cada cena

For seeing romance in every scene

Até nos filmes onde não há

Even in movies where there isn't any

Vi-te enfim

I saw you at last

E foi assim que tu e eu

And that's how you and I

Voltámos a arriscar

Dared to take a chance again

Os dois feridos em combate

Both wounded in battle

Voltámos a lutar

We fought again

E nesse repto derradeiro

And in that final challenge

De dois corações partidos

Of two broken hearts

E foi assim que tu e eu

And that's how you and I

Voltámos a arriscar

Dared to take a chance again

Os dois feridos em combate

Both wounded in battle

Voltámos a lutar

We fought again

E nesse repto derradeiro

And in that final challenge

De dois corações partidos

Of two broken hearts

Fizemos um inteiro

We made one whole

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
coração /koɾɐˈsɐ̃w/ A2	noun - heart
dor /doʁ/ A2	noun - pain
chorar /ʃoˈɾaʁ/ A2	verb - to cry
tentar /tẽˈtaʁ/ A2	verb - to try
ferido /feˈɾidu/ B1	adjective - wounded
lutar /luˈtaʁ/ B1	verb - to fight
partido /paʁˈtʃidu/ B2	adjective - broken
amor /aˈmoʁ/ A2	noun - love
cinema /siˈnɛmɐ/ A1	noun - cinema
canção /kɐ̃ˈsɐ̃w/ B1	noun - song
filme /ˈfɪlmi/ A1	noun - film
amigos /aˈmiɡuz/ A1	noun - friends
saber /saˈbeʁ/ A2	verb - to know
quebrado /keˈbɾadu/ B2	adjective - broken
tentar /tẽˈtaʁ/ A2	verb - to try

Key Grammar Structures

• Eu de coração desfeito

  ➔ Use of the preposition 'de' to indicate possession or characteristic.

  ➔ 'De' is used to connect a noun with its characteristic or ownership, as in 'coração desfeito' (heart broken).

• Um farrapo em vez de um peito

  ➔ Use of 'em vez de' to indicate substitution or replacement.

  ➔ 'Em vez de' means 'instead of', used to show substitution.

• Já sem querer saber de amor

  ➔ Use of 'sem' to express absence or lack of something.

  ➔ 'Sem' means 'without' and indicates the absence of something, as in 'sem querer saber de amor' (without wanting to know about love).

• Fizemos um inteiro

  ➔ Use of the verb 'fizemos' (fazer - to do/make) in the past tense for first person plural.

  ➔ 'Fizemos' comes from the verb 'fazer,' meaning 'to do' or 'to make,' and indicates an action completed in the past by 'we.'

• Fizemos um inteiro

  ➔ Use of the indefinite article 'um' with the noun 'inteiro' to refer to 'a whole' or 'an entire' entity.

  ➔ The phrase 'Fizemos um inteiro' metaphorically means 'we completed or became whole,' emphasizing unity or completeness.