Single · 3 October 2026
Adiós Goodbye
Headphone MixLarry Hans
Both at once · on headphones · 7:11
Both complete versions at the same time: Goodbye, in Spanish, in the left ear, and Adiós, in English, in the right. It is meant for headphones.
Single · 3 October 2026
Larry Hans
Both at once · on headphones · 7:11
Both complete versions at the same time: Goodbye, in Spanish, in the left ear, and Adiós, in English, in the right. It is meant for headphones.
Here the crossing comes undone: the word you read on the left is the one you hear on the left — the Spanish — and the word on the right is the one you hear on the right — the English.
On headphones: Spanish on the left, English on the right.
In Adiós Goodbye both complete versions play at once: Goodbye, in Spanish, in the left ear, and Adiós, in English, in the right. That is why it is meant for headphones.
It is not an invention — others have already put one language in each ear — but simply something extra: a third way of hearing the same song. So that the two would be a single song and not two playing together, they were rebuilt bar by bar, and a violin plays only the notes the two arrangements share.
A whole night in a cantina. A man lies to a bottle — he swears to it that he is better now — asks the waiter for another and tells his story to the man drinking beside him; a couple gets up to dance, and at the end the lights go out.
At its centre is the private language of two people who understood each other without explanations: she would say no when she meant yes, and that «no» was the key to everything. Tu «no» era la llave de todo, y nadie más supo abrir así: that is why one cover carries the key and the other the lock.
Adiós Goodbye is the third: the two versions rebuilt bar by bar to be a single song, with the same opening and the same ending, and a violin that plays only the notes the two arrangements share. Its cover is the negative of the other two, with the headphones, and its music video splits the screen: Spanish on the left, English on the right.
The lyrics are not translated: they are read in the language they are sung in.
Written, performed and produced by Larry Hans
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A sheet to print on both sides, with the two lyrics side by side, line by line: Spanish on the left and English on the right, just as you hear them.
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On headphones: «Goodbye», in Spanish, plays in the left ear and «Adiós», in English, in the right, both complete and at the same time. A violin and the orchestra join them in the centre.
That is its name on the platforms: «Headphone Mix», a mix made for headphones, tells you how to listen to it. On the cover and on this site it is simply called «Adiós Goodbye».
Because that way you hear both versions at once and each one keeps its own language. It is not an invention — other artists have done it before — but simply something extra: a third way of hearing the same song.
By rebuilding them bar by bar until they shared the same form — 127 bars, with the same opening and the same ending — and with a violin that plays only the notes the two arrangements have in common. That is why all three versions last exactly 7 minutes and 11 seconds.
It can, but you lose what makes it different: on a speaker the two voices blend at the same point and the song sounds somewhat quieter. That is not a flaw: it is the nature of the piece.
QT9XG2670045. The single's UPC is 700971022871.
I don't know your name or where you live, but the map says you were here. Thank you for putting this music on in your house, in your car or in your headphones, at whatever hour it was — every flag below is someone who stopped by to say hello.
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