Manu Chao wrote “Me Gustas Tú” as a string of small pleasures: planes, travel, the morning, the rain, the night — and after each one, the refrain that turns it into a love song: I like you. It is built like a nursery rhyme, with the same frame repeated over a light, swaying guitar.
That frame is exactly what beginners need. “Me gusta” is how Spanish says “I like”, and it works backwards from English: the thing you like is the subject (“it pleases me”). Hear it with one thing (me gusta) and with many (me gustan), and the rule sticks without a grammar book.
The song also drifts into French for a moment, the way Manu Chao, a Frenchman of Spanish parents, often does. Listen for the rhythm of the list: once you can follow it, you can make your own.