The English text is adapted from Portuguese. In both languages, the song expresses the regret of having let love slip away, out of pride perhaps, only to experience an immense sadness afterwards; and then, the joy of having found it again, years later, with a sharp awareness of how infinitely precious this love is. 

In French, I focused on the regret that a love story came to an end, one that remains impossible to turn away from, and how the passing years will only have confirmed how precious it was above all others - to the point where, at the end of one's life, only this love will be worth saying: “I loved.” In French, the hoped-for reunion never took place, but the waiting and the hope persist.