Hijo De La Luna ~ Vanessa Mae

Although this piece of music by Vanessa Mae is only instrumental (violin), here's some information about this wonderful song.
"Hijo de la Luna" (Spanish: "Moon's Son" or Son of the Moon) is a song written by José María Cano performed originally by the Spanish band Mecano with lead singer Ana Torroja.
What the lyrics really mean?
The lyrics depict a gypsy woman, who prays to the Moon for a husband. The Moon asks for the woman's 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 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 mother's 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 Moon's interaction with her adopted human son.
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