Melhor Eu Ir Lyrics in English Péricles

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Melhor Eu Ir by Péricles from Portuguese to English.

Verse 1

I'd better go, it's alright, it'll be better alone

If it had to be like this

It's just that, thinking it over, there was never an us

Only I thought about us

Even though I took long to end it, it hurts

You weren't only with me

It was so hard to see

That all of this was an illusion

All this time I wasted for nothing

It's hard to accept

My heart, it just won't let me

Plays dumb, there's no way

Only life can explain

That maybe we met at the wrong time

I thinking of love, you thinking late nights

And now we can't say anything

I came to say goodbye

Maybe we got lost along the way

Even by your side I feel so lonely

And now we can't do anything

Except goodbye

I'd better go, bye!

Better the ending

Better like this, like this

Better for me and for you too

I'd better go, (bye

Better the ending

Better like this), like this

Better for me

Verse 2

You weren't only with me

It was so hard to see

That all of this was an illusion

All this time I wasted for nothing

It's hard to accept

My heart, it just won't let me

Plays dumb, there's no way

Only life can explain

That maybe we met at the wrong time

I thinking of love, you thinking late nights

And now we can't say anything

I came to say

Maybe we got lost along the way

Even by your side I feel so lonely

And now we can't say anything, nothing, nothing

I came, came, came to say goodbye

(I'd better go, bye

Better the ending

Better like this), like this

I'd better go, bye

(Better the ending

Better like this), like this

Better for me, hey

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SONG MEANING

“Melhor Eu Ir” (“I’d Better Leave”) is Péricles’s soulful confession that sometimes the bravest form of love is letting go. Over a smooth pagode groove, the narrator realizes he has been dreaming of “us” while his partner was keeping her options open. The moment of clarity hurts, yet it sparks a decision: saying good-bye is healthier than clinging to an illusion. He contrasts his wish for lasting amor with her appetite for late-night fun, accepts that their timing was off, and decides that walking away is “better for me and for you too.”

The song mixes tenderness with self-respect. We hear a heart that still wants to stay (“Meu coração… se faz de bobo”) but a mind that knows the truth (“Todo esse tempo eu perdi em vão”). Péricles turns this personal breakup into a universal reminder: if the love you give is not the love you receive, choose yourself, wish the other well, and step into a freer tomorrow.

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