Dis-moi Lune d'argent [Hijo de la Luna] [English translation]

Idiot who doesn't understand

the legend which like this

says that a gypsy

begged the moon

until daybreak

crying she asked

a gypsy who would want

to marry her out of love

You will have your man,

dark-haired woman 1

From the sky replied the full moon,

but you have to give me

your kid the first one

as soon as you give birth to it

that one for a man2

his child sacrificed

very little he would love it

Moon you want to be a mother

you don't find the love

which fulfils your prayer

tell me silver moon

you who don't have hands

how to rock3 the child

child4 of the moon

From a dark gypsy 5

was born the child

just like the ermine

he was white

his pupils gray

no green color 6

albino7son of the moon

cursed you illegitimate child8!

you are the son of a non-gypsy

you are the son of a white-faced9

Moon you want to be a mother

you don't find love

that fulfils your prayer

tell me silver moon

you who don't have arms

how to rock the child

son of the moon

The gypsy believing to be dishonored

knife in his hands his woman

found

the child is not mine

you cheated on me I can see

to death he wounded it

And the child in his arms

the hill he went up

up there he abandonned it...

Moon you want to be a mother

you don't find love

that fulfils your prayer

tell me silver moon

you who don't have arms

how to rock the child

son of the moon

And the nights in which the kid plays and laughs

of joy also the moon is full up 10

and when the child cries

it decreases 11

to make him

a crandle of light

1. "femme brune" here refers to the dark colors (in body and hair) that gypsies usually have 2. here the word "man" is considered equivalent to the word "husband"3. move gently back and forth to lull the child {to calm or put to sleep thw child}4. or son 5. cannelle is a french word for cinammon.it has brown color , so it is has the same meaning as "femme brune", dark color6. actually it is a greyish-green color 7. a creature with totally white skin(abnormally), usually it has also red eyes.In people is due to lack of melanin-here just means very white/light color of skin8. child born out of marriage, so it implies that the woman had a child with an other man, not with her husband 9. pale one, with light (instead of dark) color 10. it rises full/there is a full moon 11. it is a half-moon, crescent-shaped

• Artist:Mecano
• Album:Aidalai (1991)