Recomeçar means 'to restart' or 'to begin again'. It's a beautiful and hopeful word that encapsulates the central theme of the song.
Natiruts uses this word to convey a message of resilience and enduring love, even when tired or facing difficulties. The phrase "amor pra recomeçar" (love to begin again) suggests that love provides the strength to overcome challenges and start anew, making it a very uplifting and memorable word.
"Amor Pra Recomeçar" is Natiruts sending a list of wishes to someone they care about, reggae-style: warm, patient, and never preachy.
Each verse wishes something small and honest. Not stopping too soon, since every age carries both pleasure and fear. Patience with people who get things wrong. Letting sadness last a day, not a year, and learning that laughing is good, but laughing at everything is really just despair in disguise. Friends worth trusting, even if that means living alongside a few enemies too. Enough money to get by, since you do have to live.
The chorus is the heart of the song: no matter how tired you get, there is still love left to start over with. That line repeats and builds until the song ends on it alone, "pra recomeçar," to start over, as if the point is less to say something new and more to make sure it sinks in.
Natiruts is a Brazilian reggae band formed in 1996 in Brasília, and one of the country's most popular reggae acts. They're known for blending reggae with rock, funk and homegrown Brazilian rhythms, and for lyrics about love, peace and everyday feeling.
"Dou Não Dou" fits that mold well, a warm, patient love song built around the coy back-and-forth of its title line, "I give, I don't give," as the singer waits for a guarded partner to finally open up.