THE STORY OF A SONG. HIJO DE LA LUNA Hijo de la Luna (Spanish: Moons Son) is a song written by José María Cano performed originally by the Spanish band Mecano with lead singer Ana Torroja. It appeared on their 1986 album, Entre el cielo y el suelo and had great success all over the Spanish speaking world, as did the album. From December 28, 1998 to January 11, 1999, a cover version by Loona topped the German charts, around the same time, it reached number two in the Swiss singles chart. The lyrics depict a gypsy woman, who prays to the Moon for a husband. The Moon asks for the womans first born as payment. After the child is born, his parents are dismayed to see that his skin is the whitest white and his eyes are grey, even though they both have dark skin and dark eyes. The lyrics explain that the child is a lunar Albino. But the man presumes that the baby is not his and furiously stabs his wife to death. He takes the child and runs into the wild, where he abandons it to die of exposure. Later the baby is said to live happily ever after with the Moon as his mother. When the child cries, the Moon wanes to cradle and comfort him. The chorus says that the moon wants to be a mother, yet cannot find a lover who will make her his wife, and questions her as to what she would do with a human child. In turn, the Moon doubts the mothers commitment to the little boy, wondering how much she can love her child if she is eager to trade him for a partner. The song can be construed as a myth that explains the phases of the Moon as a function of the Moons interaction with her adopted human son.
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