Learn Portuguese With Tierry with these 12 Song Recommendations (Full Translations Included!)

Tierry
LF Content Team | Updated on 2 February 2023
Learning Portuguese with Tierry's music is fun, engaging, and includes a cultural aspect that is often missing from other language learning methods. It is also great way to supplement your learning and stay motivated to keep learning Portuguese!
Below are 12 song recommendations by Tierry to get you started! Alongside each recommendation, you will find a snippet of the lyric translations with links to the full lyric translations and lessons for each of the songs!

Tierry is a prominent Brazilian singer and songwriter. Before achieving widespread recognition as a performer, he made a significant impact behind the scenes, penning hits for various well-known artists in Brazil. His talent for crafting compelling lyrics and melodies established him as a respected figure in the music industry.

Transitioning to a successful solo career, Tierry became known for his distinctive voice and engaging performances. He is particularly recognized for his contributions to the sofrência style, a subgenre often associated with arrocha and sertanejo music. Songs like "Rita" have become popular with audiences across Brazil.

CONTENTS SUMMARY
Saudade Sua (Missing You)
Morei um tempo no fundo do poço
Só Deus sabe do meu sufoco
O que eu penei pra te esquecer
Achei que 'tava até ficando louco
I lived at rock bottom for a while
Only God knows about my suffocation
What did I do to forget you
I thought I was going crazy

"Saudade Sua" is about finally moving past a painful heartbreak, right before the person who broke your heart tries to come back.

The singer describes hitting rock bottom after the breakup, spending a hard stretch grieving and struggling to forget the person he loved. He almost lost himself over it, since loving for two while getting nothing back is its own kind of suffering. Slowly, he rebuilds without them.

Then, just when he has finally let go, the other person shows up again talking about missing him. His answer is simple: it took them long enough to come looking, so now it is his turn to ignore them. The longing they claim to feel does not move him anymore, and he is not going to keep this going.

It is a song about self-respect after heartbreak, the moment you stop waiting for someone to come back and start protecting your own peace instead.

Até Conhecer Você (Until I Met You)
Jurei que eu nunca mais me apegava
Que ninguém mais me fisgava
Mas você queimou a minha língua
Enquanto sua boca me beijava
I swore I would never get attached again
That no one else hooked me
But you burned my tongue
While your mouth kissed me

This song is about giving up on love, and then falling into it anyway.

The singer opens with a vow: never get attached again, never let anyone hook him. He had convinced himself love was over for him, maybe even that it had "forgotten to be born" in his life. Then someone comes along and undoes all of it, one kiss at a time. His guarded heart thaws, and he ends up asking her to stay for the rest of his life.

The title, "Até Conhecer Você" ("Until I Met You"), is also the song's turning point, repeated again and again in the chorus. Everything before meeting her was cynicism and self-protection. Everything after is admitting he was wrong about love, and about himself.

Dois Mil E Sempre (Two Thousand And Forever)
Te olhando assim
Você parece o amor da minha vida
E olha que eu ainda nem me precipitei
'To contando até três pra não fazer besteira
Looking at you like that
You look like the love of my life
And look, I haven't even rushed yet
'I'm counting to three so I don't do something stupid

"Dois Mil E Sempre" is Tierry's playful take on love at first sight. The singer is looking at someone and already thinks he's found the love of his life, joking that he's counting to three so he doesn't do something crazy, like asking to get married before they've even dated.

Her smile wins him over anyway. He admits he doesn't want to scare her off, but he can already picture the two of them together far into the future. The title itself is the punchline: "until two thousand and always," a cheeky, over-the-top way of saying forever.

By the end he leans on two Brazilian sayings to back up the feeling: a prediction doesn't lie, and neither does a drunk person. Whether it's certainty or a bit of liquid courage talking, he's convinced this one is real.

Super Recaída (Major Relapse)
Tem gente que é mais forte
Que o homem de ferro
Termina um relacionamento
Não sente um pingo de saudade
There are people who are stronger
That the iron man
Ends a relationship
Don't feel an ounce of longing

"Super Recaída" pokes fun at how hard it is to move on from an ex. The singer says other people can end a relationship and forget about it fast, faster than the Flash. He can't. Instead of a superpower, he has a "super relapse": he drinks, calls, and ends up back at her door every time.

He plays with the superhero idea throughout the song. If he were a superhero, his power wouldn't be flying or strength. It would be chasing after the one person who keeps hurting him, no matter how many times he tells himself he's done.

The song is light and a little self-mocking rather than sad. It captures that familiar feeling of knowing a relationship is bad for you and going back anyway, and it makes a joke of it instead of dwelling on the heartbreak.

Chifre Em Pó (Powdered Cuckoldry)
'Tá ouvindo boatos
'Tá coçando a cabeça
Não tem como negar
Amigo você 'tá
'You're hearing rumors
'You're scratching your head
There's no denying it
Friend, are you

"Chifre Em Pó" is a teasing song about a friend who's been cheated on and is the last one to admit it. The narrator lays it out plainly: everyone's already heard the rumors, and the sadness on the friend's face gives it away even if they won't say it out loud.

The title is a play on Brazilian slang: "colocar chifre" (to put horns on someone) means to cheat on a partner, so wearing "chifre" (horns) marks you as the one who got cheated on. The song jokes that what looks like dandruff on the friend's shoulder is actually "chifre em pó" — horn dust, the ground-down remains of horns worn down from being betrayed over and over.

The chorus warns it's only going to get worse, turning a painful situation into a cheeky, singalong dig at a friend everyone can see the truth about except them.

Queimei A Língua (I Burned My Tongue)
Era pra gostar eu amei
Era pra sumir eu fiquei
Combinado era largar
Mas pra quê que eu fui me apegar
I was supposed to like it, I loved it
I was supposed to disappear, I stayed
It was agreed to let go
But why did I get attached

Tierry opens the song admitting he got this wrong from the start. 'Era pra gostar eu amei' [I was supposed to like it, I loved it]: every rule he set for himself broke the moment real feelings showed up.

The title is a Brazilian expression: to "burn your tongue" means you spoke too soon and got proven wrong. He thought it was 'só transa' [just sex], he admits twice in the chorus, laughing at his own certainty. Then he lists what happened instead: 'casa, cachorro, criança' [house, dog, kid], a white picket fence, splitting bills and a street address. It lands because he used to laugh at couples exactly like that: 'Eu que ria dessa gente fofa e apaixonada' [I used to laugh at these cute, lovesick people], and somehow became one anyway.

O Pai Tá Off (Dad Is Off)
Desliguei o modem, me tranquei no quarto
Me isolei de tudo, 'to sempre ocupado
Eu fiquei sem clima, joguei meu celular na piscina
'To me escondendo, chorando no banho
I turned off the modem, locked myself in the room
I isolated myself from everything, I'm always busy
I lost the mood, threw my cell phone in the pool
'I'm hiding, crying in the shower

Tierry's "O Pai Tá Off" is a hilarious and relatable tale of heartbreak, Brazilian style! Our singer is absolutely devastated after losing his love. He's gone completely off the grid, declaring, "Desliguei o modem, me tranquei no quarto" [I turned off the modem, I locked myself in the room]. He's even thrown his phone in the pool and is hiding and crying in the shower!

He admits, "Eu fiz cagada, eu perdi meu love" [I messed up, I lost my love], and since then, he's been drowning his sorrows. He repeats, "Agora o pai 'tá off" [Now dad is off], meaning he's completely checked out and unavailable. He's so heartbroken that he says, "quando eu conto não tem ninguém que não chore" [when I tell it, there's no one who doesn't cry]. It's a dramatic, over-the-top, and totally fun look at dealing with a breakup.

Choque Térmico (Thermal Shock)
Esse seu coração frio e o beijo quente
'Tá dando um choque térmico na gente
Com tanto esquenta, esfria, nosso clima varia
Já já eu fico doente
That cold heart of yours and the hot kiss
'It's giving us a thermal shock
As it heats up and cools down, our climate varies
I'm already getting sick

Tierry's "Choque Térmico" is all about that push-and-pull, on-again-off-again relationship that's driving him crazy! He sings about how his partner's "coração frio e o beijo quente" [cold heart and hot kiss] are causing a "choque térmico na gente" [thermal shock in us]. It's a constant cycle of "esquenta, esfria" [heats up, cools down], making their whole vibe unstable. He even worries, "Já já eu fico doente" [Soon I'll get sick] from all the drama!

He's tired of the hot and cold, the constant fighting when one just wants to chill, and feeling like he's always present while she's absent. Tierry makes it clear: if they're going to try again, there's no middle ground. "Não tem morno / Ou a gente congela ou pega fogo" [There's no lukewarm / Either we freeze or we catch fire]. He'd rather have the "calor da Bahia" [heat of Bahia] than the "gelo da Europa" [ice of Europe], showing he's ready for passion, not a chilly distance. It's a fun, relatable take on a love that just can't find its balance!

Aprende A Terminar A Briga (Learn to End the Fight)
Quebrou tudo sem motivo
Coitadinho do meu ouvido
Você insultou e me xingou
E eu só queria o seu amor
Broke everything for no reason
Poor little ear of mine
You insulted and cursed at me
And I just wanted your love

"Aprende A Terminar A Briga" is a playful, tongue-in-cheek song about a couple whose arguments spiral out of control. The narrator describes his partner breaking things, throwing away their photos and cursing at him over nothing, while he insists all he wanted was her love.

Instead of asking for a real resolution, the chorus turns the fight into an invitation: he tells her to "learn how to end an argument" by taking all that anger out on him in bed instead. The song treats making up after a fight as more fun than the fight itself, closing on the idea that the best part of any relationship is reconciling.

A Gente Fez Amor (We Made Love)
A gente tinha combinado
Que já 'tava tudo errado
E que não dava mais
Marcamos um ponto final
We had agreed
That everything was already wrong
And it didn't work anymore
We mark an end

"A Gente Fez Amor" is about a couple who keep trying to break up and can't quite manage it. The verses set up the ending: they agreed it was over, drew a line under it, and yet the same ending keeps pulling the narrator back in. He describes her getting ready, putting on perfume and that smile that drives him crazy, and admits he doesn't know how to actually let her go.

The chorus is the moment that ending falls apart: instead of parting ways, they end up sleeping together one more time, "as if it were the last request." It's a song about a breakup that keeps failing because desire keeps winning the argument.

Cabeça Branca (White Hair)
Um, dois
'tá valendo?
Então vamo' lá
Cabeça branca é um cidadão de bem
One, two
Is it rolling?
So let's go
White head is a good citizen

"Cabeça Branca" (literally "white head") is Brazilian funk slang for an older, well-off man who dates and shows off with much younger women. Tierry's song paints exactly that picture: a businessman who needs to unwind, so on the weekend he throws a boat party out at sea with young women in bikinis.

The women get all the attention in the photos they post online, looking like they own the party. But everyone around them knows who is really paying: the "Cabeça Branca" himself, always staying out of the picture while footing the bill for the boat and the champagne.

It's a playful, slightly cheeky take on a well-known character in Brazilian nightlife and social media culture, set to a catchy funk groove.

Amava Porra Nenhuma (Didn't Love a Damn Thing)
Eu confesso que achei que era de verdade
Você jurava me amar com uma facilidade
E eu caí
'Te amo' na sua boca, era frase ensaiada
I confess I thought it was real
You swore to love me with ease
And I fell
'I love you' in your mouth, it was a rehearsed phrase

"Amava Porra Nenhuma" is Tierry's blunt takedown of a partner who faked being in love.

The singer admits he fell for it: the promises, the easy "I love you," all of it sounded real at the time. Looking back, he realizes it was rehearsed, a line delivered with practiced ease rather than genuine feeling.

The chorus is the moment the mask comes off. Instead of a polite way of saying it, the song reaches for the rawest possible phrase: whatever that was, it wasn't love. He tells his ex to take that so-called love and shove it, because he knows now none of it was real.

It's a song about betrayal dressed up as a breakup anthem, angry rather than sad, and it doesn't pretend to be diplomatic about it.

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