Retrato Pra Laiá Lyrics in English Los Hermanos

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Retrato Pra Laiá by Los Hermanos from Portuguese to English.

Baby, if I sin, it's from wanting

To have a love that's real

So I threw myself at you like that

And went to find you

Just to see I was mistaken

After living the obvious utopia, kissing you

And messing with sincerity and saying

Almost everything that felt natural

I went there to see you, to say

Let it be, as it'll be

When we meet

Below, a park sky watching us

Let it be how it'll be

I'll go without worrying

And believe to see how much I can guess

Up close I didn't want to see that every foretelling was vain

I only found out far away, even though you saw it before me

That, looking at you, I saw another woman

And now, what's left?

A movie in close-up toward the end

In a composite sketch I'm filed, displayed in a diagnosis

Specialists analyze and rule: no

Let it be how it'll be

Everything set in its place

So trying to predict just helped me fool myself

Let it be, as it'll be

I'm already put in my place

On a continent upside-down

In black and white, in hotels

In a clear, simple frame I'm what you see

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SONG MEANING

Imagine chasing a picture-perfect love only to realize the image was out of focus all along. Retrato Pra Laiá is the narrator’s candid confession of diving headfirst into an idealized romance, tasting its sweet promise, and then bumping into the disappointment that followed. He recalls how he mistook longing for certainty, how the “obvious utopic” kiss felt real until reality broke the spell, revealing he was projecting another woman onto the person before him.

Rather than wallow, the chorus “Deixa ser, como será” offers a laid-back Brazilian wisdom: let things be and quit overthinking. The song turns into a quirky self-portrait where the singer imagines himself cataloged like a police sketch, picked apart by “specialists,” and finally accepts that predictions and labels only tricked him. In the end, he frames himself “in a clear and simple frame” – a black-and-white snapshot of someone older, humbler, and now ready to watch love develop naturally, just like film exposed to light.

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Los Hermanos Retrato Pra Laiá Lyrics