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