A Rosa Desfolhada Lyrics Translation in English

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English Translation

Tento compor o nosso amor

I try to compose our love

Dentro da tua ausência

Within your absence

Toda a loucura, todo o martírio

All the madness, all the torment

De uma paixão imensa

Of an immense passion

Teu toca-discos, nosso retrato

Your record player, our portrait

Um tempo descuidado

A careless time


Tudo pisado, tudo partido

All trampled, all broken

Tudo no chão jogado

Everything thrown on the floor

E em cada canto

And in every corner

Teu desencanto

Your disenchantment

Tua melancolia

Your melancholy

Teu triste vulto desesperado

Your sad desperate figure

Ante o que eu te dizia

Facing what I was telling you

E logo o espanto e logo o insulto

And soon the astonishment and soon the insult

O amor dilacerado

Love torn apart

E logo o pranto ante a agonia

And soon the tears before the agony

Do fato consumado

Of the accomplished fact


Silenciosa

Silent

Ficou a rosa

Remained the rose

No chão despetalada

On the floor, petals scattered

Que eu com meus dedos tentei a medo

Which I timidly tried with my fingers

Reconstruir do nada:

To rebuild from nothing:

O teu perfume, teus doces pêlos

Your perfume, your sweet hairs

A tua pele amada

Your beloved skin

Tudo desfeito, tudo perdido

All undone, all lost

A rosa desfolhada

The defoliated rose

Added by Carla Sousa
São Paulo, Brazil June 9, 2024
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