Foi Assim (Romeu e Julieta) — Vittoria Seixas & Heitor Teixeira Lyrics

Song Facts:

• Genre: Soundtrack


• Lyricists: Vittoria Seixas & Heitor Teixeira


• Featured on the soundtrack of the animated film "A Infância de Romeu e Julieta"

Annotations and Meaning:

"Foi Assim (Romeu e Julieta)" is the touching duet that sings the story of these two great artists and their first feelings for each other, exactly like the iconic love of Romeu and Julieta. This song is featured in "A Infância de Romeu e Julieta," when a modern, youthful take on the classics of love at first sight.
In its turn, the text starts with a very direct description of the first meeting: "É (foi assim) Eu não estava pronta (você olhou pra mim) Você chegou e tomou conta (do meu jardim)." The metaphor of a garden is used within the first verse as a metaphor for the heart or private inner space of the individual, filled with emotions by another person. This imagery of a garden blooming with flowers sets a tone of enchantment and emotional richness.
The song moves on with the wishes of sharing, yearning for companionship, and developing deeper relationships, with lines such as "Vem (quero ficar contigo) Andar de skate na rua (ser mais que um amigo)." Such activities (skating, stargazing) replace one simple yet meaningful activity in young love that describes shared experience and deeper bonding.

The verses are suffused with the kind of intensity that the chorus, with its repeating motif, almost seems too measured for. The repetition of this very happening in the song means to bring out the transforming power that their feelings hold, which would be too much in saying that they will never be able to know peace. Translated from the statement: "Foi demais (nunca mais tive paz) Será que é isso que o amor faz?"

Themes and Messages:

"Foi Assim (Romeo and Juliet)" deals with themes of falling in love with young love, discovery, and awakening. Exactly this is what the music captures: the first experiences of how love feels when everything just seems to be too much and too much of everything, with innocent excitement. The message of the song is about the power of love to transform one's world, to fill it with color and life. It also describes the storyline of fate and fatedness, just like the classic Romeo and Juliet tale, but it has a much hopeful, light, and fresh tone to it, definitely for a more juvenile audience. The simple tune and the lyrics in the song portray a universal truth of love, which changes one's view and priorities in life, hence placed as an apt addition to the movie's soundtracks and becoming a very relatable piece by the audience of the movie.