Translation of the song lyrics Você Abusou - Sergio Mendes

Você Abusou (original)

Você abusou, tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim (diz aê! diz aê! diz aê!)
Você abusou, tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Mas não faz mal, é tão normal ter desamor
É tão cafona e sofredor
Que eu já nem sei se é meninice ou cafonice o meu amor
Se o quadradismo dos meus versos
Vai de encontro aos intelectos
Que não usam o coração como expressão
Você abusou, tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Que me perdoem se eu insisto neste tema
Mas não sei fazer poema ou canção
Que fale de outra coisa que não seja o amor
Se o quadradismo dos meus versos
Vai de encontro aos intelectos
Que não usam o coração como expressão
Você abusou, tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
(vamos juntos. vamos juntos.)
Você abusou, tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou
Tirou partido de mim, abusou

Você Abusou (translation)

You trespassed, harvested my trust, despoiled me,
You gleaned what was tender, then cast me aside,
You reaped my surrender (speak now! declare it! confess it!)
You trespassed, harvested my trust, despoiled me,
You gleaned what was tender, then cast me aside,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
But let it be—what frost is more common than love’s decay,
How threadbare, how bitterly gaudy this ache,
I no longer know if my love is youth’s fever or masquerade,
If the angular grid of my verses
Collides with minds as moonlight on glazed stone,
Those who never let the heart speak in their lines,
You trespassed, harvested my trust, despoiled me,
You gleaned what was tender, then cast me aside,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
Pardon me if I circle this wound again,
Yet I cannot forge a poem or a song,
That tells of a world unpossessed by love’s shadow,
If the angular grid of my verses
Collides with minds as moonlight on glazed stone,
Those who never let the heart speak in their lines,
You trespassed, harvested my trust, despoiled me,
You gleaned what was tender, then cast me aside,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
(let us go together. let us go together.)
You trespassed, harvested my trust, despoiled me,
You gleaned what was tender, then cast me aside,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft,
You gleaned what was tender, then left me bereft