Na Hora De Amar (Insensível) Lyrics in English by Gusttavo Lima
Insensível translates to "insensitive" or "unfeeling". It's a poignant word that captures the emotional core of the song's title and theme.
While not explicitly in the provided lyrics, the song's full title is "Na Hora De Amar (Insensível)", implying the narrator's partner is insensitive or unfeeling in love. This word immediately sets the tone for a narrative of emotional distance and heartbreak, making it highly enticing for a learner to discover why this word is so central to the song's meaning.
This is a song about watching someone leave while she is still sitting in the room. It opens on her face, not on a fight: "Seu olhar sempre está muito longe / Em um lugar que se chama solidão" ("Your gaze is always far away, in a place called loneliness"). He has started narrating her absence to himself, and by the third line he says the suspicion out loud — "Chego a pensar que você se esconde da minha paixão" ("I've come to think you're hiding from my passion"). The second verse gives the feeling a picture instead of a word: "Eu vejo o sol se afastando do horizonte / Igual você que se escondeu de mim" ("I see the sun moving away from the horizon, just like you, who hid from me").
What he wants from her is not that she stays. It is that she admits it. The chorus accuses her of cowardice rather than of cruelty — she is "Com medo de contar / Que seu amor por mim acabou" ("afraid to tell me that your love for me is over") — and the line the whole song is named after lands as the real wound: "Sempre fingiu, nada sentiu / Na hora de amar" ("You always pretended, you felt nothing, when it came to loving"). The Portuguese title carries the other half of that accusation in brackets, Insensível ("unfeeling"). By the last verse he has stopped asking: "A gente sente quando tudo acabou" ("You can feel it when it's all over"). Gusttavo Lima recorded it for Buteco do Gusttavo Lima, Vol. 2 (2017) — it is a Portuguese version of Roxette's "Spending My Time", rebuilt as sertanejo.
