Eu Deixei Lyrics in English Carolina Deslandes

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Eu Deixei by Carolina Deslandes from Portuguese to English.
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I don't ask anymore
Why'd you do what you did
I ask how I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
It was for love
I screamed at the mirror I did it for love
But how'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
Verse 1
Your hand's got curves and I'm a straight line
With vision so blurry, yelling I was right
I don't know if it was Cupid but I felt the arrow
I ignored the poison, love, I threw the party
You scream in my face but kiss my forehead
And what separates us is what we contest
What stays here is what's left over
Or what's left?
Verse 1
Why am I always stuck to what's no good?!
I don't ask anymore
Why'd you do what you did
I ask
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
It was for love
I screamed at the mirror I did it for love
But how'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
Verse 2
Keep the ball low, I said keep the ball low, I stomp on the box
Where you don't find the smaller version of me anymore
Whoever looks finds, I saw the crack, the split
From where the water pours
I tried to drown what I cried for you
What I cried
I wasn't and I'm not your design
It's just disdain, I pity what I saw
In my throat a hatred so big
I wrote it, I sang it
When I sang I spat
When I sang I spat
When I sang I spat
When I sang I spat
I don't ask anymore
Why'd you do what you did
I ask how I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
It was for love
I screamed at the mirror I did it for love
But how'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
How'd I let it happen?
Thing is, I let it
How'd I let it happen?
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SONG MEANING

"Eu Deixei" is Carolina Deslandes’s fierce diary entry about waking up from a love that bruised more than it blessed. Throughout the song she stops blaming the other person and turns the mirror on herself, repeating the burning question "Como é que eu deixei?""How did I let this happen?" That refrain captures the shock of realizing we sometimes stay in toxic stories out of blind devotion. The verses paint the contrast: a partner who shouts yet kisses her forehead, bitter words wrapped in tender gestures, while she silences her own doubts by declaring "Foi por amor""It was for love."

By the end, the track becomes an act of cleansing. Deslandes spits the pain out, admits the anger lodged in her throat, and vows to stop shrinking into a “version menor de mim” – a smaller version of herself. The song is raw, rhythmic self-reclamation, reminding listeners that recognizing our own role is the first beat in dancing free from a harmful relationship.

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