We Don’t Talk

About Bruno

Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and “Encanto” cast

We don’t talk about Bruno, no, no, no

We don’t talk about Bruno, but

It was my wedding day

It was our wedding day

We were getting ready

And there wasn’t a cloud in the sky

No clouds allowed in the sky

Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin

Thunder

You telling this story or am I?

I’m sorry, mi vida, go on

Bruno says “It looks like rain”

Why did he tell us?

In doing so, he floods my brain

Abuela gets the umbrellas

Married in a hurricane

What a joyous day but anyway

We don’t talk about Bruno, no, no, no

We don’t talk about Bruno

Hey, grew to live in fear of Bruno stuttering or stumbling

I can always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling

I associate him with the sound of falling sand

It’s a heavy lift with a gift so humbling

Always left Abuela and the family fumbling

Grappling with prophecies they couldn’t understand

Do you understand?

A seven-foot frame, rats along his back

When he calls your name it all fades to black

Yeah, he sees your dreams and feasts on your screams

We don’t talk about Bruno, no, no, no

We don’t talk about Bruno

He told me my fish would die, the next day: dead (No, no)

He told me I’d grow a gut, and just like he said (No, no)

He said that all my hair would disappear, now look at my head (No, no)

Your fate is sealed when your prophecy is read

He told me that the life of my dreams

Would be promised and someday be mine

He told me that my power would grow

Like the grapes that thrive on the vine

(Oye, Mariano’s on his way)

He told me that the man of my dreams

Would be just out of reach, betrothed to another

It’s like I hear him now

Hey sis, I want not a sound out of you

It’s like I can hear him now, I can hear him now

Yeah, about that Bruno

I really need to know about Bruno

Gimme the truth and the whole truth, Bruno

(Isabela, your boyfriend’s here)

Time for dinner

A seven-foot frame, rats along his back

(It was my wedding day, it was our wedding day)

When he calls your name it all fades to black

(We were getting ready and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky)

Yeah, he sees your dreams and feasts on your screams

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Background

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is the second song from a Disney animated film to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is written by Lin Manuel Miranda and performed by the cast of the computer-animated musical. The first happened 29 years ago — “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin” reached the top spot in 1993.