About this song
IMPERFEITO
By Coral Canto Jovem e Rayssa Andreoli
Updated
What “IMPERFEITO” means
The song tells a parable-like story of leaving home, chasing freedom, and discovering that what looked bright outside the house was actually deceptive. The narrator first feels restless with the familiar, steps beyond the “gates,” and imagines himself powerful and self-made, able to create a new life by his own hands. But that dream turns into loss: the things he pursued slip away, the people he loved are left behind, and what seemed like protection and liberation becomes emptiness, danger, and loneliness. The emotional movement is from curiosity and pride to disillusionment and regret, with recurring images of house, gates, walls, hands, and the “bottom of the well” reinforcing the sense of distance, enclosure, and wasted effort. This part reads as a spiritual and moral descent, not just a physical departure. The ending shifts into return and mercy. The narrator decides that going back is the only solution, and the tone changes from self-confidence to humility as he comes home ashamed and unsure whether he will be accepted. At that point, the focus moves from the narrator’s failure to the father’s response: instead of rejection, he is met with embrace, forgiveness, and a welcome home. Interpreted as a Christian allegory, the song uses the return of the child to suggest repentance, grace, and restoration after self-chosen exile. That theological reading is supported by the language of fatherhood, pardon, servanthood, and new life in the text itself, but any claim that this was the artist’s explicit intention would require external documentation not present here.
About Coral Canto Jovem e Rayssa Andreoli
Coral Canto Jovem is a youth and middle-school choir from Colégio Adventista do Paraná, and Rayssa Andreoli is a Brazilian Christian pop singer and songwriter. This recording belongs to their 2025 period of church-based, institution-supported releases rather than a long solo album campaign.
This song was released as the single IMPERFEITO in 2025, not as part of a verified album or EP. The official release date is February 19, 2025, and the YouTube lyric video came later, so the upload should not be treated as the original release. The credits name Gustavo Fernandes as composer and Annelise Santana and Gustavo Fernandes as lyricists, with Coral Canto Jovem da FAP and Rayssa Andreoli as performers. The project was made for the Faculdade Adventista do Paraná's 85th-anniversary celebration, which explains its institutional, choir-led worship context and why the lyric video emphasizes a live, campus-based presentation rather than a studio album identity.
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