Maria Lyrics in English Jão

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Maria by Jão from Portuguese to English.
Verse 1
Maria, I always thought something would point it out
But it was on just another ordinary day
That you left me
I didn't know what I wanted
But I knew it wasn't here
Verse 1
In this city that drowns you
But, like fire, you needed to go
That November, I ran to your house
But I only found your letter and it said
Sorry, I can't love myself
The way you love me
And now I can't come back anymore
My house is in flames
I needed to leave myself
To find out where I was
But it's not that I feel bad
I just don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
Let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Sorry, I can't love myself
The way you love me
Babe, I wanna be a star
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SONG MEANING

Imagine waking up on an ordinary day only to find that the person you adore has vanished, leaving behind nothing but a letter. This is the emotional jolt at the heart of “Maria” by Brazilian singer Jão. Over a wistful beat, he runs through memories of a girl who felt the city “afoga” – it drowns her – and who burns with the need to escape. While he was ready to give her unwavering love, Maria felt empty inside, unable to love herself “do jeito que você me ama.” Her note is both an apology and a declaration of independence, asking to be let go so she can search for the missing pieces of her own identity.

The song captures the bittersweet collision between passionate devotion and personal liberation. Jão paints Maria as a restless soul, trading the comfort of romance for the unknown road that might reignite her inner fire. Lines like “Minha casa está em chamas” and the English coda “Babe, I wanna be a star” reveal her intense desire to start anew, far from a place that smothers her dreams. What remains is the ache of the narrator, who must accept that sometimes love means opening the door, even when every heartbeat pleads “Me deixa ir.”

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