Heroic love belongs to superior natures - master of life and death: Don Quixote - the impossible dream - the world wishes to be deceived

Note: In this song, Don Quixote explains his quest and the reasons behind it ... in doing so, he captures the essence of the play and its philosophical underpinnings. (For Hawks Cafe, Captain Sherlock and Abel Danger, it is absolutely magical.)

Musical "Man of La Mancha" - The Impossible Dream Lyrics
Lyrics by Joe Darion



To dream ... the impossible dream ...
To fight ... the unbeatable foe ...
To bear ... with unbearable sorrow ...
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
To right ... the unrightable wrong ...
To love ... pure and chaste from afar ...
To try ... when your arms are too weary ...
To reach ... the unreachable star ...

This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...

And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I'm laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...

"Don Quixote, then, died and went down into Hell, which he entered, lance on rest, and there he freed all the condemned, as he had freed all the galley slaves, and he closed the gates of Hell, and took down the inscription Dante saw there, 'Abandon all hope!' And then, escorted by the souls he had freed, and they laughing at him, went into heaven. And God laughed paternally at him, and his divine laughter filled his soul with eternal felicity." -- The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, Miguel de Unamuno