Adiós Dulcinea. [English translation]

Today, I decided to write to you

after so much crying,

my tears are today those verses that

your absence will never erase

I'm leaving the same way I came to your life,

with no noise I say goodbye, I leave,

but it's so difficult to forget you, my love

it's so difficult to say goodbye,

Today, I've understood that

those walks will never be back

at the hotel

when you hurried me up,

to never lose an instant of us, making love.

I'll stop to see you grow up,

I'm leaving to live, where does oblivion lies?

I'll try to find another path, another love

each time, I try to lose fear to fall down

I stumble with myself,

and stop to escape from who has loved me,

and I remain unlit.

The ground of my life is dressed

shelter with leaves of a goodbye

my destiny is to love and saying bye

ask for permission to live.

You left forgotten in every corner

of my soul, pieces of my heart

you left forgotten in my soul, the scent

slept embraced to a flower.

I'll stop to see you grow up,

I'm leaving to live, where does oblivion lies?

I'll try to find another path, another love

and I know if I will lose myself

or find me, I feel so alone

but to my hell I'll go, searching

for everything I didn't give to you.

Today, I understood again

that you'll never caress me again

before going to bed

and close to my chest, you ask me

to hold you and never let you go.

I'll stop to see you grow,

I have to go, and find

my path and I'll never forget

how much you loved me, my love.

I'll stop to see you grow up,

I'm leaving to live, where does oblivion lies?

I'll try to find another path, another love

each time, I try to lose fear to fall down

I stumble with myself,

and stop to escape from who has loved me,

and I remain unlit.

Goodybe, my life, I leave, I let you go

I'll live on your memories

I'll never forget you

goodbye, Dulcinea 1, I leave

and if we find each other again

only embrace me,

I'm still that boy

afraid of growing up

I sleep next to your portrait, my love.

1. Dulcinea del Toboso, is a fictional character in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.

• Artist:Mägo de Oz