It means 'Son of the Moon'. It's a beautiful song with a beautiful story. Thought I'd just post it here.


Foolish is he who doesn't understand:
A legend tells of a gypsy woman
Who pleaded with the moon until dawn.
Weeping, she begged
At the break of dawn
To marry a gypsy man.

"You'll have your man, tawny skin,"
Said the full moon from the sky.
"But in return I want the first child
That you have with him.
Because she who sacrifices her child
So that she is not alone,
Isn't likely to love it very much."

Chorus:
Moon, you want to be mother,
But you cannot find a love
Who makes you a woman.
Tell me, silver moon,
What you intend to do
With a child of flesh.
A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha,
Son of the moon.

From a cinnamon-skinned father
A son was born,
White as the back of an ermine,
With grey eyes instead of olive --
Moon's albino child.
"Damn his appearance!
This is not a gipsy man's son
And I will not put up with that."

Chorus

Believing he was dishonoured,
The gypsy went to his wife,
A knife in his hand.
"Whose son is this?
You've certainly fooled me!"
And he wounded her mortally.
Then he went to the woodlands
With the child in his arms
And left it behind there.

Chorus

And the nights the moon is full
It is because the child
Is in a good mood.
And if the child cries,
The moon wanes
To make it a cradle.
And if the child cries,
The moon wanes
To make it a cradle.

Isn't it a wonderful story? Just like a fairy tale...

Whoa...very interesting. It's quite sad, though...But I can't imagine the music/visualise it properly! Do you have it anywhere I can possibly listen to it or something?

You should really see Sarah Brightman's concert, La Luna. The way she sang it... whoa!!!

Sarah Brightman doesn't sound like her usual self! It's sounds...thinner than usual. And you didn't say it was not in English, though I don't mind I listen to a lot of songs I need the lyrics to sing along to, and which I don't understand but still Speaking of lyrics, do you have the original? I could find it, but I feel lazy.. One more non-english song that I don't understand I can learn *grins*

Beautiful. Kinda haunting. Gackt uses the bells in his music too, and the flutes are nice Man it's not a-ha-ha! It's ahhhh, ahhhh....gosh. I thought she was gonna laugh there or sth. (doesn't that spoil the mood, heh)

Yeah! I think she's trying to be more 'pop' or something. -shrug- Once a sop, always a sop, I say. Tsk... lazy lazy. Just search for the title and you'll get the lyrics, but oh well...

Tonto el que no entienda.
Cuenta una leyenda
Que una hembra gitana
Conjuró a la luna
Hasta el amanecer.
Llorando pedía
Al llegar el día
Desposar un calé.

"Tendrás a tu hombre,
Piel morena,"
Desde el cielo
Habló la luna llena.
"Pero a cambio quiero
El hijo primero
Que le engendres a él.
Que quien su hijo inmola
Para no estar sola
Poco le iba a querer."

Estribillo:
Luna quieres ser madre
Y no encuentras querer
Que te haga mujer.
Dime, luna de plata,
Qué pretendes hacer
Con un niño de piel.
A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha,
Hijo de la luna.

De padre canela
Nació un niño
Blanco como el lomo
De un armiño,
Con los ojos grises
En vez de aceituna --
Niño albino de luna.
"¡Maldita su estampa!
Este hijo es de un payo
Y yo no me lo callo."

Estribillo

Gitano al creerse deshonrado,
Se fue a su mujer,
Cuchillo en mano.
"¿De quién es el hijo?
Me has engañado fijo."
Y de muerte la hirió.
Luego se hizo al monte
Con el niño en brazos
Y allí le abandonó.

Estribillo

Y en las noches
Que haya luna llena
Será porque el niño
Esté de buenas.
Y si el niño llora
Menguará la luna
Para hacerle una cuna.
Y si el niño llora
Menguará la luna
Para hacerle una cuna.

I find it difficult trying to memorize the lyrics because it sounds really different from how it's spelled.

Is it? Hmmm....darn I got locked out of my computer so my version of hijo de la luna is stuck there...*tries to look pleading* Could you gmail it over? Please please? *whinges*

It reminds me a bit of Mercedes Lackey Filk, actually...quite interesting.

Oh garn I need an invite then.

It reminds you a bit of what? Filk? What's that?

Didn't I give you one? *eyeballs* mutters.

Filk is to songs what fanfic is to writing pieces. At least I think. Though some are probably performed by Lackey and friends...remember those I let you listen to? That's Misty filk..

Filk?! FILK?! What a terribly inelegant word! -acts supercilious- Haha no kidding... Ok. In what way does that sound like filk. Then again, since I've only ever heard M. Lackey filk... -shrug-

No, you didn't give me one...

I did. *glowers*

"Jo Phay has accepted your invitation to Gmail and has chosen the brand new address purloined.mortality@gmail.com. Jo's new address has been automatically added to your contact list so you can stay in touch with Gmail. "

Hur hur.

A lot of Misty filk are story based. Which you don't see much nowadays, really..and it's just the general tone, length, repetition, I guess.

Ooooops. Oh so THAT'S my username. Haha.

Yeah. Come to think of it, that's the bizarre/romantic/tragic style Lackey (sometimes) gets just right.

I'm thinking of writing a story based on that. I just love this song! Can't get enough of it...

Isn't it weird that the moon is commonly seen as 'female' and the sun as 'male'? I mean, this happens in most cultures, and I don't think they were copied from other societies or anything, because the emergence of the idea happened either consecutively or in cultures too far away to have copied...

Wait. Do you store every last email you get?! I'd have deleted something like that eons ago!!! -aghast-

Personally I think the story line is not as good as some of Misty's, but I'm biased

And yes, I do. Basically all of them. Because Gmail has, after all, 1Gig of space. Plus it has a search engine so I can search for mails. See how useful it is? *hinthint*

Actually not true. In german, sun is die Sonne and moon is der Mond -- ie the sun is feminine, the moon is masculine. I suppose it has to do with the yinyang ideas...sun representing strength and all and moon representing softness, darkness..

I think maybe it's because this is, after all, just a 4 minute song. There are only so many nuances you can cram in. Maybe if it were fleshed out, given a few twists...

Ahah! Is that so? Do you know any Sun/Moon German myths...?

Er, no.

Germanic myths are weird lar. They're basically Norse mythology, if I'm not wrong. Involves the mother cow and Nilfheim and whateverheim and basically a very dark mood...though I've always had the impression Aztec mythology was the darkest.

I could go and check for you, but I'm sure you'll understand when I say I have quite enough of German myths liao Actually 4 mins is quite long what..I'm talking about storyline, not about fleshing eh.

Speaking of flashing I still think it's sweet for Misty's friends to write continuations to her song (Lammas Night), though admittedly it was late (for her birthday or something?) and some were downright weird...