Grace VanderWaal "Moonlight" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

New York singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal first gained attention after appearing on 'America’s Got Talent' in 2016. Her performance helped her score a hit with “I Don’t Know My Name,” and she signed to Simon Cowell’s label soon after. Back in June, VanderWaal dropped “Moonlight” as the lead single for her upcoming album 'Just the Beginning,' which drops tomorrow. The song is about dealing with depression and looking back on how it’s possible for someone to change so much.

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So this was my first writing session
with a producer named... /writer named Ido.

I was super duper awkward
and super weird. I was like

"So um, do you wanna like,
write a song now?"

I've never been in love.

I've never, you know, done...

I've never done most of
the things that I say in my songs.

But this one, actually,
Moonlight is a specific story.

I knew someone struggling
with mental health.

At the time it was still going on.

Now it's all gucci, it's all good.

But when someone's going through
that, they're not them anymore.

They lose that spark.
Things like that don't go away.

And it only escalates.

And watching that,
it's so hard to watch that.

And I liked to try
and put that in the song.

You know.

Classic, always happy.

Stay positive.

But, no one's always happy.

No one's always positive,
you know?

Don't want that mask
over you, you know?

I love dolls, and creepy
old antique dolls.

I'm obsessed with them.

I've brought them in a lot of
my old songs as well.

People are just seeing
that perfect face

and the perfect doll
and being like,

"Oh, it's all good."
Like, "you're still you."

"Nothing's going on."

"Her? No. She's like
the happiest girl alive."

I almost saw like a shelf, like an old doll
just starting to tip over the edge.

Dancing in the moonlight, and that beautiful
dance party, is one of the most cliché things.

Looking back on that person, remembering
them as them and having that spark.

It feels, it feels... you miss that so much,
that you changed the memory to feel so magical.

Well, you see.

When you're someone having this little fake
life, it's kind of about that fake life almost

completely taking over and it's not even
like you get those little glimpses anymore.

She's lost.
And she is kind of...

This mask is starting to just
eat her up and kind of become her.

The hard thing about mental health and
those kinds of situations is they're so unique.

I know everyone says this,
but get some help man.

It honestly helps, a lot.

It might seem like they might not
need it at the time, or it might seem like

"Oh, it's finally starting to work out,
I'm finally starting to see them,"

but that's usually
not how it works.

You usually need, you know,
that professional help.