Songfacts®:

• If you've ever found yourself staring at the night sky, convinced that the moon must surely be the world's most patient listener, Daniel Caesar has written your soundtrack. "Moon," from his fourth album, Son of Spergy, is a quiet, slow-burn meditation on love, devotion, and the uncomfortable question of who picks you up when you've spent all your energy holding someone else together.
• The song plays out like a two-act drama. In the first part, Caesar casts himself as the underdog, a man not yet who he wants to be, who he admits is in need of saving. In the second part, the drums disappear, the atmosphere widens, and he pledges to chase his own dreams.
• When Caesar sings, "I'll howl at the moon," it's a primal cry into an indifferent night sky. It calls back to the same emotional rawness that made "Best Part" a wedding staple. But while "Best Part" is the comfort of a shared moment, "Moon" is about the vulnerability and fear faced when no one is fighting for you.
• Caesar is joined on "Moon" by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, who plays the guitar and sings backing harmonies. It's one of two Son of Spergy collaborations between the pair, the other being the closing track, "Sins of the Father."
• Caesar and Vernon co-wrote "Moon" with longtime Caesar collaborator Matthew Burnett, alongside Isaac Stalling and producers Rami Dawod, Simon On The Moon, and Dylan "Sir Dylan" Wiggins.
• Son of Spergy was written and recorded over two years in Oracabessa, Jamaica; Paris' Rue Boyer; and New York's legendary Electric Lady Studios. At its heart the album is about Caesar's father - nicknamed "Spergy" - a man he described to Billboard as being "like God" in childhood: the "person you fear the most on earth and also the person whose love and respect you desire more than anyone else on earth." Which perhaps explains why "Moon" feels like more than a love song. It's as much about looking skyward for guidance as it is about looking inward for strength.