Paroles et traduction Laurika Rauch - Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Ek het my vrees oorwin en uitgewyk
Na ′n wêreld wat half lyk
Asof jy jou maklik daarin kan verloor
As jy alles glo wat jy hoor
Oos van Gibraltar loop ek vas
In die man wat homself met illusies belas
En ten spyte van sy stokou poon
Als wat voorkom wil onttroon

Sy donker oë het gelag toe hy eenkant wag
Tot ek uit die stof opstaan
Ek het 'n donkie geleen en is agter hom aan
Om sy dade te probeer verstaan
Don Quixote die mense sê jou sleg
Maar jy′s net jou verbeelding se troue kneg
Don Quixote jy dryf jou spoke weg
En jy's reg, so reg
Maar as jy onraad merk dan storm jy voort
Na die slagveld soos dit hoort
Ek's verstom en deur jou dade bekoor
Tot ek besef jy′t alweer verloor
Maar wat jy altyd sal behou
Is om alles as moontlik te beskou -
Selfs ′n windmeul tot geveg te daag
Sonder die wete dat jy selde slaag

Jou donker oë het gelag terwyl jy regop wag
Om tot ridder geslaan te word
En al sê almal die werklikheid het jou verslaan
Dink ek jy't dit tog verstaan
Don Quixote die mense sê jou sleg
Maar jy′s net jou verbeelding se troue kneg
Don Quixote jy dryf jou spoke weg
En jy's reg, so reg
En jy′s reg, so reg

Don Quixote

I overcame my fear and escaped
To a world that seems half
As if you could easily get lost in it
If you believe everything you hear
East of Gibraltar I run into
The man burdened himself with illusions
And despite his old age
He wants dethrone everything he sees

His dark eyes laughed as he waited aside
Until I rise from the dust
I borrowed a donkey and followed him
To try to understand his actions
Don Quixote people say you're bad
But you are only your imagination's faithful servant
Don Quixote you drive away your ghosts
And you're right, so right
But when you notice mischief, then you storm off
To the battlefield as it should be
I'm amazed and charmed by your actions
Until I realize you've lost again
But what you will always keep
Is to consider everything possible -
Even to challenge a windmill to a fight
Without knowing that you rarely succeed

Your dark eyes laughed as you waited upright
To be knighted
And although everyone says that reality has defeated you
I think you understood it anyway
Don Quixote people say you're bad
But you are only your imagination's faithful servant
Don Quixote you drive away your ghosts
And you're right, so right
And you're right, so right