If you’re anything like me, you really get into TV shows, TV dramas to be more specific. Dexter, Breaking Bad, and now, Narcos. Why is it always the “bad’ shows that captivate us?! What ever the reason is, I feel a big part of a show’s success is the soundtrack. Narcos has a superb theme song that catches its audience’s attention. The song is called “Tuyo.”

Narcos theme song “Tuyo” was written specifically for the Netflix TV show by Rodrigo Amarante.Amarante is part of the Brazilian/American rock band Little Joy. Billboard spoke with him about the inspiration for the song. Below is his response.

So my approach was to humanize Pablo by writing a song that seemed like a view from the inside of the character, rather than a view from the outside. I had this idea to write a song that was his mother’s favorite when he was a kid, something that would influence his idea of the man that he would like to be. […] I didn’t want to make it a tango, but that was the route that I took. The way the lyrics are written and the way the production sounds is all about Pablo’s transition from childhood to manhood, which is what defines him. I wanted to deliver something romantic and deceivingly generous but if you listen to the lyrics you see that there’s a narcissistic point of view.

Not only is this the theme song for the series, but we got a glimpse of its importance in a scene where Pablo is meeting with “Cockroach” in a bar when the band starts to play the song. Pablo starts singing along, and from there, we know how important the song is.

The Narcos theme song was done beautifully, and if you’ve been watching the series, you know the tune as soon as it starts. The dreamy vocals over the Latin beat fit perfectly, and set the right mood for the show, a mood you can almost get lost in. It almost sounds like a serenade that you’d expect someone to be singing just below a balcony, and if you were wondering what the lyrics are or what they mean, see them below.