O Sol by Vitor Kley (Advanced): Chorus

💬 toda vez que means "every time" and is followed by a full clause: toda vez que você sai, toda vez que ele chega. In Portugal, unstressed vowels get reduced a lot, so você often sounds closer to (vuh-SEH) than what the spelling suggests.

💬 With verbs like distrair-se, the little se is part of the verb: distrai-se = "gets distracted / distracts himself-itself." You'll also see the pronoun after the verb in European Portuguese: o mundo distrai-se.

💬 toda vez que means "every time" and introduces a full idea after it: toda vez que você sai, toda vez que chove. In Portugal, people often place se after the verb, so alongside se distrai you'll commonly hear distrai-se.

💬 After quem, Portuguese often uses a future-like verb form for a general "whoever...": quem ficar = "whoever stays." Compare quem chegar primeiro ganha — "whoever arrives first wins."

💬 foi is the past of ir here, so quem foi means "whoever went" or "the one who left," not "who was." vai is from the same verb ir, so the line plays with past and present forms of "to go."

💬 After quem, Portuguese often uses ficar for a general "whoever stays": quem ficar. In quem foi, foi is from ir here, so it means "whoever went / left," not "who was."

💬 toda vez que is a fixed way to say "every time," followed by a full clause: toda vez que você sai, toda vez que ela liga. sai is from sair and means "goes out / leaves."

💬 toda vez que means "every time" and is followed by a full clause, not just a noun. In Portugal you'd very often hear this with distrai-se instead of se distrai, because pronouns commonly go after the verb.

💬 foi here is from ir "to go," so quem foi means "whoever went / left." Repeating vai is lyrical emphasis, not a new grammar pattern.