Patrañas means “fabrications,” “nonsense,” or “lies,” with a dismissive tone suggesting that someone’s words are completely untrustworthy. In the song, the singer calls the other person’s claims of missing him patrañas, making this a memorable and expressive word for rejecting deceit.
Santa RM’s “Dile A La Luna” (“Tell the Moon”) is a firm breakup message sent through the night sky. The speaker asks someone to tell the moon that he will never return: “Ve y dile a la luna que no voy a volver” [Go and tell the moon that I’m not coming back]. He is tired of always apologizing, begging, chasing, and ending up with a broken heart. He has even torn up their photos, which makes his decision feel final. The repeated line “no voy a llorar” [I’m not going to cry] sounds like a promise he keeps making to himself, even while he admits how much he cried before.
The song gets sharper when he calls the ex’s excuses “patrañas” [nonsense or lies] and compares those lies to “telarañas” [spider webs] because they trap him and make him cry. Then the mood shifts from wounded to confident: he says he has found another “princesa” [princess] who values and truly loves him. The fairy-tale language is a little playful, especially when he rejects being her “caballero” [knight] and calls her a “bella doncella” [beautiful maiden]. By the end, he says his heart is no longer broken and refuses to give it away without love in return. “Dile a la luna” becomes his memorable way of saying: tell her I am gone, I will sleep somewhere else, and this time I really mean goodbye.