If you’ve been bingeing new Netflix Original drama Narcos all weekend, chances are you’ve been grooving along to the series’ captivating theme music. Whether or not you speak fluent Spanish, the story behind the enthralling opener goes a little deeper than your average introductory credits. “Tuyo,” or, “Yours,” was composed specifically for the series by Rodrigo Amarante, a member of the band Little Joy (the same Little Joy to which Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes belongs).

NPR, who must be just as obsessed as we are, did some detective work of their own regarding “Tuyo,” and discovered that when writing the song, Amarante was inspired by the thought of what Pablo Escobar’s mother would have listened to while raising her ambitious young son who would go on to be an infamous drug kingpin. The melody reminds us of a romantic serenade, and thanks to Decider’s Spanish-speaking amiga Melissa Aquiles and her intuitive sense of dialects (Amarante is Brazilian so not everything translates to the Spanish you may have learned in grade school), we were able to get a sense of the surprisingly dark theme Narcos has laid before us thanks to her English translation of “Tuyo”:

I am the fire that burns your skin,

Soy el fuego que arde tu piel

I am the water that kills your thirst.

soy el agua que mata tu sed.

Of the castle, I am the tower,

El castillo, la torre yo soy

the sword that guards the treasure.

la espada que guarda el caudal.

You, the air that I breathe,

tu el aire que respiro yo

and the light of the moon on the sea.

y la luz de la luna en el mar.

The throat that longs to be choked

La garganta que ansio mojar

that I’m afraid I’ll drown in love.

que temo ahogar de amor.

And which desires you are going to give me.

y cuales deseos me vas a dar

just to look is treasure enough,

mi tesoro basta con mirarlo,

it will be yours, it will be yours.

tuyo será, y tuyo será.

The entire soundtrack, which is truly top-notch, delves just as deep into Escobar’s legend as the theme. Crafting the original score and theme along the narcocorrido subgenre (a branch of music written for and about drug kingpins in Central and South America), Pedro Bromfman, who’s helped compile and compose for the likes of Elite Squad and 2014’s RoboCop remake, said in an interview that the work of Sergio Leone and his Spaghetti Westerns helped inspire Narcos. “Colombia in the late 80’s and early 90’s reminded me of those towns you see in Westerns, dominated by a gang of outlaws. In those films, someone from out of town will usually come and help the locals defeat the bad guys. As people watch Narcos they’ll be able to see the parallels I drew, however in Colombia they had a much bigger and more complicated situation.”

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[You can stream all 10 episodes of Narcos Season One only on Netflix]

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