Dois Corações Partidos – Bilingual Lyrics Portuguese/English

• By: Joana Almeirante, Samuel Úria

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the nuances of Portuguese as you listen to "Dois Corações Partidos" by Joana Almeirante and Samuel Úria, a heartfelt duet about finding love and wholeness after heartbreak. This song offers a poignant look at emotional vulnerability and resilience, enriched by its evocative lyrics and soothing melodies.

[English]

With a broken heart

A rag instead of a chest

And a pain that no longer hurts

I cry on the shoulders

Of all my friends

And of those I don't even know well

I try to understand

I try to forget

I try, try

I saw you at last

With a shattered heart

Destroyed and crumpled

No longer wanting to know about love

I cry in the corners

And there were so many corners

That in the meantime, it has dried up

I who said I had closed

My heart with a padlock

And threw the key into the sea

I saw you at last

And that's how you and I

Dared to take a chance again

Both wounded in battle

We fought again

And in that final challenge

Of two broken hearts

We made one whole

I wanting to know by heart

A thousand songs of heartbreak

For they only speak of me

I who said I was sick

To avoid going out and seeing people

So no one would see me like this

I stopped going to the cinema

For seeing romance in every scene

Even in movies where there isn't any

I saw you at last

And that's how you and I

Dared to take a chance again

Both wounded in battle

We fought again

And in that final challenge

Of two broken hearts

And that's how you and I

Dared to take a chance again

Both wounded in battle

We fought again

And in that final challenge

Of two broken hearts

We made one whole

...

[Portuguese]

Eu de coração desfeito

Um farrapo em vez de um peito

E uma dor que já nem dói

Eu a chorar pelos ombros

Dos meus amigos todos

E de quem nem conheço bem

Eu a tentar perceber

A tentar esquecer

A tentar, tentar

Vi-te enfim

Eu de coração quebrado

Destruído amarrotado

Já sem querer saber de amor

Eu a chorar pelos cantos

E os cantos foram tantos

Que entretanto já secou

Eu que dizia ter fechado

O coração a cadeado

E deitado a chave ao mar

Vi-te enfim

E foi assim que tu e eu

Voltámos a arriscar

Os dois feridos em combate

Voltámos a lutar

E nesse repto derradeiro

De dois corações partidos

Fizemos um inteiro

Eu a querer saber de cor

Mil canções de desamor

Por falarem só de mim

Eu que dizia estar doente

Pra não sair e não ver gente

Pra ninguém me ver assim

Eu a deixar de ir ao cinema

Por ver romance em cada cena

Até nos filmes onde não há

Vi-te enfim

E foi assim que tu e eu

Voltámos a arriscar

Os dois feridos em combate

Voltámos a lutar

E nesse repto derradeiro

De dois corações partidos

E foi assim que tu e eu

Voltámos a arriscar

Os dois feridos em combate

Voltámos a lutar

E nesse repto derradeiro

De dois corações partidos

Fizemos um inteiro

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.