This is a wonderful song from Puerto Rican singer/songwriter Robi Draco Rosa called Penelope. It's a song that juxtaposes a loss of love in modern times with Ulysses' longing to see Penelope again. While Ulysses is geographicall distant from his love, the distance in the modern context is psychological. I've put my translation below the link. I can post the Spanish or it can be got online.
I wake up in the morning
dreaming I don't know what
Breakfast with rain
and I remember you in the cafe.
I dreamed your distant figure
waiting in the suburbs of oblivion
and I saw myself alone,
sailing in golden boats filled with gifts for you
and then I saw the sea jealous of my torments,
swallowed the ship,
and that crazy man that was me
...and everything wrecked.
How far off you are,
so far myself,
the debris of my life slips by in the rain
reminding me of Penelope.
I abandon myself to the waves,
that spit from the sea.
Years have passed,
and nobody knows where you are.
The streets deserted at night,
and your face is drawn in my memory,
the trees embrace
like forests of skeletons in the rain,
and my shipwrecked dream
How far off you are
So far am I
it rains tears of the mind
And I get drunk with bitterness
forgetting Penelope
How far off you are, how far I am;
the rubble of my life
slides through the rain,
remembering Penelope
I take refuge in the tavernas
And I become taciturn
Forgetting Penelope
How far off you are, how far I am;
What's left of my life
I waste it on insults
Remembering Penelope
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It has a Very Spain Pop to it... a Big Feel of Spanish Rock about it despite the Tropical Beat Underneath. Good Fusion, Well Made.
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