There goes Captain Beto through space
With his fiber ship made in Haedo
Today master among the masters of the air
He's already been fifteen years on his journey
His gear is as precarious as his fate
Yet a strange ring
Drives off his dangers out in the cosmos
There goes Captain Beto through space
Carlitos' photo on the console
And a River Plate pennant
And the sad holy card of a saint
Where is the place that everybody calls heaven?
If nobody comes up here
To serve me some bitter mates like at my old doorstep
Why would I have come all the way here
If I can't take any more loneliness?
I can't stand the loneliness anymore
His ring immunizes him from danger
But it doesn't protect him from sadness
Sailing through man's galaxy
There goes Captain Beto, the wanderer
Where might there be a city
In which somebody whistles a tango?
Where are they, where are they
The garbage trucks, my mom and the café?
If this goes on just like this
Not even a sad shadow will remain
Not even a sad shadow will remain
There goes Captain Beto through space
Watering the geraniums in his cabin
Without a compass and without radio
He'll never be able to return to Earth
It took many years until they found him
Beto's ring bore inscribed a symbol of the soul