Hey Moon

Molly Nilsson wrote "Hey Moon", listed as "Hey Moon!" on These Things Take Time, track eight at 5:24 on the album and on the CD-R (MusicBrainz lists another recording at 5:16). Wikipedia dates a single to April 18, 2008. The album was made in 2007 and 2008, produced by Nilsson, and personnel and the studio are not documented beyond that. We found no statement from her on what the song is about. Bandcamp Daily calls it a fan favorite more than a decade on, and Night School says it is her most popular song, that she no longer plays it live and has distanced herself from it, because after its release it was covered and used on television, out of her control. Setlist.fm's song statistics for her 157 setlists do not list it, which fits. Bandcamp Daily's 2018 interview says Twenty Twenty contains a farewell to it.

John Maus covered it as track four of We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (June 27, 2011), 4:08, the longest on that album and its third single in November 2011. Maus told the Red Bull Music Academy it was just banality, but like any great pop song it's much more than that. A CalArts page and a Danish venue release say Nilsson recorded or duetted a version for it, which we did not verify.

In 2021 a 7-inch of "Hey Moon" backed with an early song, "Silver", was reissued on Dark Skies Association and Night School, announced on February 3 and digitally released on March 29, with all profits going to Black Lives Matter worldwide and the line it's time to reclaim Hey Moon. We could not tell whether our upload is the 2008 album version or the 2021 single, and found no video or chart history.