Skip to main content

Mimicat

Described as having a ‘sassy-badass’ stage presence, Mimicat (otherwise known as Marisa Mena) likes to marry her soulful voice with catchy melodies in the songs she writes.

She’s been singing and recording since the age of 9, but burst onto the scene big time in 2014 with the release of her critically acclaimed debut album For You.

This year has a lot in store for the singer-songwriter; as well as heading to Liverpool, she’ll be busting out a new album, which will obviously feature Ai Coração - her Eurovision entry which Mimicat wrote and co-produced with Luís Pereira.

For anyone wondering, Mimicat does indeed have a cat. Their name is Brownie.

Music video

Live performance

Lyrics of Ai Coração

Ai Coração que não me deixas em paz
Não me dás sossego, não me deixas capaz
Tenho a cabeça e a garganta num nó
Que não se desfaz e nem assim tu tens dó

Sinto-me tonta, cada dia pior
Já não sei de coisas que sabia de cor
As pulsações subiram quase pra mil
Estou louca, completamente senil

O peito a arder, a boca seca eu sei lá
O que te fazer, amor pra mim assim não dá
Porque parece que nem sou mais eu
Ai coração, ai coração, diz-me lá se és meu

As horas passam e o sono não vem
Ouço as corujas e os vizinhos também
O meu juízo foi-se e por lá ficou
Alguém me tire deste estado em que estou

O doutor diz que não há nada a fazer
Caso perdido, vi-o eu a escrever
Ando perdida numa outra dimensão
Toda eu sou uma grande confusão

O peito a arder, a boca seca eu sei lá
O que te fazer, amor pra mim assim não dá
Porque parece que nem sou mais eu
Ai coração, ai coração, ai coração, diz-me lá se és meu

O peito a arder, a boca seca eu sei lá
O que te fazer, amor pra mim assim não dá
Porque parece que nem sou mais eu
Ai coração, ai coração, ai coração, ai coração,
Diz-me lá se és meu
Oh, heart that won't let me be,
You won't give me peace, you leave me unfit!
My head and throat are circling around,
That won't undo itself, and yet you feel no sympathy!

I feel dizzy, and every day worse,
I don't know things that I used to know!
My pulse is racing like mad,
I feel crazy, totally senile!

My chest is burning, my mouth is dry,
What’s happening to me?
What to do love, I can't do it like this!
Because I don't even feel like myself,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Tell me if you are mine?

Hours go by and I can't sleep,
I hear the owls and my neighbours too!
My mind is gone, and it got lost in there,
Somebody please snap me out of this!

The doctor says there's nothing to be done,
“Lost cause”, I saw him writing!
I’m lost in another dimension,
I am now a huge mess!

My chest is burning, my mouth is dry,
What’s happening to me?
What to do love, I can't do it like this!
Because I dont even feel like myself,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Tell me if you are mine?

My chest is burning, my mouth is dry,
What’s happening to me?
What to do love, I can't do it like this!
Because I don´t even feel like myself,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Oh, heart,
Tell me if you are mine?