João Gilberto
Insensatez lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1988
- Genre
- Bossa Nova
- Length
- 2:23
Ah, insensatez, o que você fez?
Ah, folly, what have you done?
Coração mais sem cuidado
Heart, so careless now
Fez chorar de dor o seu amor
Made your love cry in pain
Um amor tão delicado
A love so delicate
Ah, por que você foi fraco assim?
Ah, why were you so weak?
Assim, tão desalmado?
So heartless, like this?
Ah, meu coração, quem nunca amou
Ah, my heart, who has never loved
Não merece ser amado
Does not deserve to be loved
Vai, meu coração, ouve a razão
Go, my heart, listen to reason
Usa só sincericade
Just use sincerity
Quem semeia vento, diz a razão
Who sows the wind, they say,
Colhe sempre tempestade
Always reaps the storm.
Vai, meu coração
Go, my heart,
Pede perdão, perdão apaixonado
Ask for forgiveness, passionate forgiveness.
Vai, porque quem não pede perdão
Go, for those who don’t ask for forgiveness,
Não é nunca perdoado
Are never forgiven.
Bravo!
Brave!
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Key vocabulary
- insensatez
- folly
- fez
- made
- coração
- heartB1
- mais
- moreA1
- cuidado
- careA2
- chorar
- cryA2
- dor
- painA1
- amor
- loveB2
- tão
- so
- delicado
- delicateB1
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About this song
João Gilberto was a Brazilian singer and guitarist associated with bossa nova, and one of its key architects. He is known for shaping the style through understated acoustic guitar rhythms and a restrained vocal approach that helped define the samba and jazz-informed sound, including on seminal recordings such as Chega de Saudade and Getz/Gilberto.