Moon and Moon (song)

"Pearl's Dream"
"****Sleep Alone / Moon and Moon****"
"Laura"

"**Moon and Moon**" is a song performed by Bat For Lashes. It serves as the third track on Natasha's second album, *Two Suns*. It is the third single from the album released on September 6, 2009.

## Background

The song was written when Natasha was finishing up her first record, *Fur and Gold*, and performed live a few times in the 2007 tour. The song was named after her ex-boyfriend’s band.

## Music and composition

In an interview with *Radio X*, Natasha stated:

> “It was a ballad I wrote which I called it ‘my wolf howling across the sea’. The time I was thinking about the moon, when you’re in one continent or one piece of land that when you see the moon it might be a different time as someone else is seeing it. I thought that if you could just send a message on the moon, […] someone else might see the moon and receive the message. You know, the idea of cycles and how we’re all connected but separate.”
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Natasha for Pitchfork:

> “I wrote it in the studio when I actually was finishing up *Fur and Gold*. One of the last days in this crazy mansion house in the countryside, I sat down and wrote this “Moon and Moon” song, and it’s actually named after the band and my relationship with the person in the band. So that kind of marked the beginning of our relationship. *Two Suns* takes you through this whole journey, all the way to the end of the relationship and the end of making the record.”
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## Critical reception

Pitchfork opined:

> “The strident piano chords and lone snare of "Traveling Woman" echoes PJ Harvey's desolate roadsongs, while "Moon and Moon"'s delicate piano playing and cabinet-reverbed backing vocals evoke early Tori Amos.”
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BBC opined:

> “She is both warm and cold across the album, the blasé Pearl and the vulnerable Natasha on the frosty chamber ballad “Moon And Moon,” consumed by lust and confounded by heartbreak on the darkly new-wave dance-pop of Sleep Alone.”
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## Lyrics

Lover, when you don't lay with me

I'm a huntress for a husband lost at sea

If I had you here, braid our hair together

I'd be boy and you'd be girl, beautiful

Calling moon and moon

Shoot that big, bad hand

It'll track me to your door

And I won't see you no more

When this wild world (wild world)

Is a big bad hand (big bad hand)

Pushing on my back (my back)

Do you understand? (understand)

When I get home (get home)

Been in the jungle (jungle)

Where's my bear to lick me clean? (lick me)

Feed my soul milk and honey

Calling moon and moon (shoot that, shoot that, shoot that)

Shoot that big, bad hand (shoot that, shoot that, shoot that)

It'll track me to your door (shoot that, shoot that, shoot that)

And I won't see you no more (shoot that, shoot that, shoot that)

I won't see you no more

## References

1. ↑ "Bat for Lashes Tour Statistics: 2007". *Setlist.fm*.
2. ↑ Hogan, Marc (8 June 2009). "Bat For Lashes: Interview". *Pitchfork*.
3. ↑ http://www.radiox.co.uk/news/interviews/bat-lashes-two-suns/
4. ↑ https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/7658-bat-for-lashes/
5. ↑ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12910-two-suns/
6. ↑ https://www.stereogum.com/2038264/bat-for-lashes-two-suns-turns-10/reviews/the-anniversary/