Figure in this songLa Llorona
The legend, as it's usually told
La Llorona
La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, is told across Mexico and the American Southwest. Abandoned by the father of her children, she drowned them in the river, and was condemned to wander the water's edge forever, crying for them. Generations of children have been told she will take them too if they go near the river after dark.
What the song hears
The reframe
Becoming the warning she needed when she was young.