Gostava Tanto De Você Lyrics in English Tim Maia

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Gostava Tanto De Você by Tim Maia from Portuguese to English.
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I don't even know why you left
How much I missed you
And I will live with sadness
And that goodbye, I couldn't say
You marked my life
Lived, died in my story
I even get scared of the future
And of the loneliness, that knocks on my door
And I
Liked you so much
Liked you so much
I run, I flee from this shadow
In dreams, I see this past
And on the wall of my room
Your picture is still there
I want to see to not remember
I even thought about moving
To any place that doesn't exist
The thought of you
And I
Liked you so much
Liked you so much
I don't know why you left
How much I missed you
And I will live with sadness
And that goodbye, I couldn't say
You marked my life
Lived, died in my story
I even get scared of the future
And of the loneliness, that knocks on my door
And I
Liked you so much
Liked you so much
I run, I flee from this shadow
In dreams, I see this past
And on the wall of my room
Your picture is still there
I want to see to not remember
I even thought about moving
To any place that doesn't exist
The thought of you
And I
Liked you so much
Liked you so much
And I liked you so much
And I liked you so much
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SONG MEANING

Tim Maia’s “Gostava Tanto De Você” wraps raw heartbreak in Brazil’s signature soul-funk groove. The singer looks back on a love that vanished without warning, leaving only saudade—that uniquely Portuguese word for deep, aching longing. He wanders through memories like old photographs on his bedroom wall, torn between staring at them and running away so he can forget. Every line shows the tug-of-war between wanting to move on and being pulled back by the shadow of the past.

As the chorus repeats “Eu gostava tanto de você” (“I liked you so much”), we feel how the narrator’s life story still spins around this absent person. He fears the future, dreads the knock of loneliness at his door, and even imagines moving to “any place” where thoughts of them can’t follow. Yet no matter how far he tries to run, the song’s groove keeps circling back, echoing the inescapable loop of memory. It is a bittersweet anthem about how love can leave—but its imprint stays forever.

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