“The Impossible Dream“
Man of La Mancha
music by Mitch Leigh
lyrics by Joe Darion
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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 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
Pablo Picasso
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Dedicated to all those who strive
with their last ounce of courage,
to reach that unreachable star…
~ Theresa
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I love this song
So do I. Whenever I am reminded of it, the melody and lyrics start replaying in my head, and in my heart. Thank you, as always, for taking the time to stop in, read and comment.
You’re welcome 🙂
Oh my word, I love this song!!! My dad and I used to play the piano together and he would sing it as I played. All animated he would get!!! Love this!! Thank you!!
I’m smiling to have been able to be able to gift you, Skye, as you do so for so many of the rest of us.
i love this song – always inspirational.
Thank you and I agree. Today, I needed inspirational.
I listen to this song and “Man of La Mancha” for so logntemps, I love it and it awakens in me so powerful motions…
“To try … when your arms are too weary …
To reach … the unreachable star …”
I so agree with you. It is touching and inspiring and powerful. Your refrain – “to try, when your arms are too weary” – that sums up life, doesn’t it? Thank you for so often reading and commenting here, Elisabeth.
Yes, Theresa, it is our human condition, forward, always, even if despair lurks. I’ll comment more often, if my English was not so bad 😀 Thank you for your wonderful blog and yours visits to mine
I always go back to Jim Nabors singing this, beautiful.
For me, it’s Richard Kiley.
One of my favorite songs. 🙂
Thank you for commenting – you join quite a group of us who seem to love it, and what it stands for. Blessings to you…
I have an impossible dream I guess. 🙂
And blessings to you, too.
Nothing is impossible…never lose your dreams.
I am working on it. Thanks. 🙂
Ah, yes! Classic earworm material.
Grinning…
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