Atormentar means 'to torment' or 'to haunt'. It's a strong verb that conveys a sense of persistent distress or suffering.
In the song, Marília Mendonça uses it to describe how past memories "atormentar minha cabeça" (torment my head), highlighting the painful and inescapable nature of her recollections of a lost love. This word perfectly captures the emotional intensity of the lyrics.
Maiara & Maraísa bring in Marília Mendonça for a live sertanejo duet about a breakup neither woman has moved past. "Você foi embora / E deixou uma saudade e com ela a solidão" ("You left / and left behind a longing, and with it the loneliness") sets up the ache: someone walked out, and the person left behind is drowning in saudade — that specifically Brazilian, bittersweet kind of longing.
The chorus turns the hurt into a confession: "Só pensando em você / É inútil tentar te esquecer" ("Only thinking about you / it's useless trying to forget you"). She can pretend she's over it — "Posso até disfarçar / Que deixei de te amar" ("I can even pretend / that I stopped loving you") — but the tears keep giving her away.
Marília Mendonça was a Brazilian singer and songwriter from Cristianópolis, in the state of Goiás. Born in 1995, she started writing songs as a child and launched her recording career in 2014, quickly becoming one of the biggest names in sertanejo music.
She was known as the Queen of Sofrência, the heartbreak-driven side of sertanejo, and helped lead the feminejo movement of women artists in a genre long dominated by men. Her powerful voice and honest lyrics about love and longing turned her into a superstar across Brazil. Marília died in a plane crash in November 2021 at just 26 years old, and she is still celebrated as one of the country's most beloved voices.