”’Moonlight’ is a song about love in a depressive state,” said frontman Samuel T. Herring. “It’s about recognizing the holes in ourselves and recognizing the circular whole of others. ‘Moonlight’ is about acceptance because that’s what love allows us all.”
Here's our chance -- to make it
Make this into something more
Here's my heart
Don't break it
It's all that I ask
Nothing more
Breaking to your heart
Called from wild and far away
Can any fool learn love?
It's all that I ask
Nothing more
Nothing more
So we just lay in bed all day
I couldn't see
I'd a cloud in my arms
But if I ask you
Would you say?
"It's only rain"
Nothing more
Nothing more
Here I lay me down
Here I lay me down
Here I lay me down
Moonlight was written by Future Islands.
Moonlight was produced by Future Islands.
Future Islands released Moonlight on Tue Sep 15 2020.
It’s very much a love song. It’s also a love song about depression. And another song about acceptance. The line ‘So we just laid in bed all day/I couldn’t see/I had a cloud in my arms’ is to say, ‘I was carrying a rain cloud.’ This grey thing—it’s my depression. ‘But if I asked you/Would you say it’...