Hoy Es Adios by Santana and Alejandro Lerner

"Today is Goodbye"
Style: Rock, sad, border-crossing song
Country: Mexico, Argentina

Él se fue con el invierno.
Él se ha ido a trabajar.
No me ha escrito en mucho tiempo;
Él dijo que volverá.

He left with the winter.
He has gone to work.
Hasn't written to me in a long time;
He said he would return.

Pero el tiempo pasó,
No preguntes por qué
Él ya no regresó a nuestro hogar.
La frontera marcó
Su destino final
Y a mis brazos jamás volvío.

But the time passed,
Don't ask why
He won't return to our home now.
The border marked
His final destination
And to my arms he never returned.

CHORUS:
Hoy es adios;
Mañana quizas.
Sé que tú vas a volver.
Hoy es adios,
Mañana quizas.
No hay fronteras en nuestro querer.

Today is goodbye;
Tomorrow, perhaps.
I know that you will return.
Today is goodbye,
Tomorrow, perhaps.
There are no borders in our love.

Ya ha pasado un nuevo invierno
Desde que te ví marchar.
No hay un mundo mejor que el nuestro.
Sé que un día volveras.

A new winter has passed now
Since I saw you leave.
There is no world better than ours.
I know that one day you will return.

Pero el tiempo pasó,
No preguntes por qué
Él ya no regresó a nuestro hogar.
La frontera marcó
Su destino final
Y a mis brazos jamás volvío.

But the time passed,
Don't ask why
He won't return to our home now.
The border marked
His final destination
And to my arms he never returned.

CHORUS:
Hoy es adios;
Mañana quizas.
Sé que tú vas a volver.
Hoy es adios;
Mañana quizas.
No hay fronteras en nuestro querer.

Today is goodbye;;
Tomorrow, perhaps.
I know that you will return.
Today is goodbye;
Tomorrow, perhaps.
There are no borders in our love.

SPOKEN:
Vuelve hijo mio.
Aqui te espero.

Return, my son.
I wait for you here.

CHORUS REPEATS

Translation Notes:

Él ya no regresó a nuestro hogar
He won't return to our home now

ya no regresó - implies certainty in that he didn't return and won't return

Wassily Kandinsky

When I was 17, Christina told me, my psyche is like a painting by Wassily Kandinsky

I have never forgotten that. She always told me the most beautiful lies.

Alphabet

I just remembered the first time I started learning the letters of the alphabet. They looked like strange & funny little shapes to me. 

It was such fun to draw them over and over again, until at some point I could draw them by heart. 

They didn't really mean anything to me at the time, but still, there was a strange calmness that was overcoming me while I was learning how to draw them on paper using colourful crayons and pencils.

That is such an old and almost forgotten memory...

Weird how our brain works and stores random stuff, only to bring them up again at some equally random point in the future.

Memories

We all come to this world alone,
and that's how we leave. Alone.
We bring our life into this dimension,
and we leave it, only with our memories.