Quem A Gente Quer Lyrics in English Scatolove

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Quem A Gente Quer by Scatolove from Portuguese to English.
If for a moment you could see
Who I was before I met you
So many traumas and scars that could drown
If for a millennium I have to wander
In the dark, a boat in the wind just to find you
Don't let go of me, don't let me let go of you
Just the two of us and we're always there
Crossing the ocean on a spaghetti
One always cries while the other laughs
Playing violin in the shipwreck
It doesn't matter what's real and what's not
What defines us is what we want
And who's around
Nobody's aware
How hard it is, and it's not written
There's no manual on how to live together
So if it's meant to be, it'll be!
Who's gonna say otherwise?
You gotta be such an idiot
To meddle
Throw the traumas in the ocean
For the pufferfish to feast
Just the two of us and we're always there
Crossing the ocean on a spaghetti
One always cries while the other laughs
Playing 'Evidências' in the shipwreck
It doesn't matter what's real and what's not
What defines us is what we want
And who's around
It's what we want
And who's around
Who we want, we want
Who's around, close
Who we want, we want
Who we want close
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SONG MEANING

Quem A Gente Quer feels like a dreamy road-movie sailing across the Atlantic… on a strand of spaghetti! Scatolove mixes playful surrealism with raw honesty, inviting us to peek at the scars and fears she carried before love found her. She paints a picture of two adventurers adrift in the dark, clinging to each other while violins play on a sinking ship. These images remind us that intimacy often grows out of chaos, and that even the heaviest baggage can be tossed overboard when someone chooses to stay by our side.

Beneath the whimsy lies a bold manifesto: what defines us is what we want, not what others label as “real.” The chorus insists that the only people who matter are quem a gente quer – the ones we choose to keep close. Forget manuals, forget outside opinions. Love, friendship, family… they are all self-written stories, and anyone trying to dictate our cast must be “muito otário.” In the end, the song is an anthem for personal freedom, cheering us on to throw our traumas to the pufferfish and sail forward, laughing and crying together, toward whatever future we decide to create.

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