Sopro – Bilingual Lyrics Portuguese/English

• By: Diogo Piçarra

Lyrics & Translation

[Portuguese]

[English]

Passo a passo, nua face

Step by step, bare face

Teu disfarce para te fazeres ouvir

Your disguise to make yourself heard

Conta agora a tua forma de roubar

Now tell me how you steal

E ocultar os meus sentidos

And hide my senses

Dizes que me entendes sem me conhecer

You say you understand me without knowing me

Passo em falso, entrei em colapso

I step wrongly, I collapse

Por pensar que um dia te podia ter

For thinking I could have you someday

Invento formas para crer

I invent ways to believe

Recrio histórias para te ver

I recreate stories to see you

Tão perto, tão longe, onde estás

So close, so far away, where are you

De repente pergunto

Suddenly I ask myself

Como posso dar se tu nunca estás

How can I give if you’re never here

Ás vezes sinto que a medo respiro

Sometimes I feel I breathe in fear

Quando um sopro teu me retira

When a breath of yours takes me away

O resto que sou, lado a lado, meu retrato

The rest of who I am, side by side, my portrait

É teu fardo o nosso doce amargo

Our sweet bitterness is your burden

Cobre o tempo que gastaste

Cover the time you spent

Nessa arte de apagar o passado

In that art of erasing the past

Vives só pra ti e recusas

You live only for yourself and refuse

Voltar poder sentir curar fluir sem pensar

To feel again, heal, flow without thinking

Como posso dar se tu nunca estás

How can I give if you’re never here

Ás vezes sinto que a medo respiro

Sometimes I feel I breathe in fear

Quando um sopro teu me retira

When a breath of yours takes me away

O resto que sou

The rest of who I am

Invento formas para crer

I invent ways to believe

Recrio histórias para te ver

I recreate stories to see you

Invento formas para crer

I invent ways to believe

De repente pergunto

Suddenly I ask myself

Como posso dar se tu nunca estás

How can I give if you’re never here

Ás vezes sinto que a medo respiro

Sometimes I feel I breathe in fear

Quando um sopro teu me retira

When a breath of yours takes me away

Como posso dar se tu nunca estás

How can I give if you’re never here

Ás vezes sinto que a medo respiro

Sometimes I feel I breathe in fear

Quando um sopro teu me retira

When a breath of yours takes me away

O resto que sou

The rest of who I am

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
disfarce /diʃˈfaɾsɨ/ B2	noun - disguise
roubar /ʁoˈbaɾ/ B1	verb - to steal
ocultar /okuɫˈtaɾ/ B2	verb - to hide
colapso /kuˈlapso/ C1	noun - collapse
invento /ĩˈvẽtu/ B2	verb - to invent
recrio /ʁɨˈkɾiu/ B2	verb - to recreate
sopro /ˈso.pɾu/ B1	noun - breath
medo /ˈmeðu/ A2	noun - fear
respiro /ʁɨʃˈpiɾu/ B1	verb - to breathe
fardo /ˈfaɾðu/ B2	noun - burden
apagar /a.paˈɣaɾ/ B1	verb - to erase
passado /pɐˈsaðu/ B1	noun - past
curar /kuˈɾaɾ/ B2	verb - to heal
fluir /fɫuˈiɾ/ B2	verb - to flow

Key Grammar Structures

• Conta agora a tua forma de roubar

  ➔ Present tense of the verb 'contar' to indicate an action happening now

  ➔ 'Conta' is the present tense for 'to count' or 'to tell', used here to give an order or statement about doing something now.

• Como posso dar se tu nunca estás

  ➔ Conditional mood using 'posso' (can) + infinitive, expressing possibility

  ➔ 'Posso' is the first person singular form of 'poder', meaning 'can' or 'may', used here to express uncertainty in a conditional context.

• Vives só pra ti e recusas

  ➔ Present tense verb 'vives' from 'viver' indicating current ongoing action

  ➔ 'Vives' is the present tense of 'viver' (to live), here used to describe how someone lives or exists, in this case, 'alone for yourself'.

• Vemos só pra ti e recusas

  ➔ Present tense 'recusas' from 'recusar' indicating an ongoing refusal

  ➔ 'Recusas' is the present tense of 'recusar' (to refuse), showing that the subject persistently refuses or denies something.

• Cobre o tempo que gastaste

  ➔ Imperative form of 'cobrir' (to cover), expressing a command or suggestion

  ➔ 'Cobre' is the imperative form of 'cobrir' (to cover), used here to give an order or suggestion to cover or hide something.

• De repente pergunto

  ➔ Present tense of 'perguntar' (to ask) to indicate a current action

  ➔ 'Pergunto' is the first person singular present tense of 'perguntar' (to ask), used here to indicate the speaker is asking or questioning in the moment.