Track 03 of RM’s Mono Playlist: Moonchild.

Music Video

Produced by RM, Hiss noise

I’m not quite sure of the English part of the lyrics. Might have to listen to the song a few more times and correct over time. Most of the Korean lyrics are in the latter half of the song.

We’re born in the moonlight

Ain’t no fantasy

Can’t breathe in the sunlight

Gotta hide your heart

We born to be sad sad sad sad

Suffer to be glad glad glad glad

C’mon y’all moonchild, moonchild,

That’s how it’s supposed to be

Yeah all these pain, all these sorrow

That’s our destiny, see?

You and my life is like this

We gotta dance in the rain

Dance in the pain,

Even though we crash down

We gon dance in the plane

We need the night scenery more than anyone

No matter whoever is there,

Only I can console myself

It’s okay to shed the tears

But don’t you tear yourself

Moonchild, you shine

When you rise it’s your time

C’mon y’all

Moonchild, don’t cry

When moon rise it’s your time

C’mon y’all

Moonchild, you shine

When moon rise it’s your time

C’mon y’all

Although I leave, I can’t seem to leave even once

Saying that you want to die, but just as much you still diligently lived.

This part sounds like he’s talking to himself, where “you” is himself that he is talking to.

Saying that you wanna let go, you put on another ball and chain

literally, you put another sinker (that you use in fishing)

“Let’s not think” is yet another thought, you know

The truth is that our fate is just like this, you know

Smiling in endless pain, you know

The moment that you talk about freedom, there is no freedom,

You know, do you know?

This part reminds me of his song Reflection in Wings album, where he says “I want to be free from the freedom”

In the time of the moon, I look at that night sky with the eyes of soul

I’m going to show you, your window, your time

창 is a “window”, which is the more obvious meaning here since eyes are windows to the soul. However, this word 창 also means “spear” – so it can mean:

I’m going to show you, your spears, your time

If the eyes are windows to the soul, but also windows are spears, then it also means that the eyes are like spears (eg. sharp things causing injuries)

Do you know, that street lamp also has a lot of thorns.

Street lamp could be metaphor for the moon, which has a lot of sharp thorns/spears of light. So there is hurt associated with the moon and the street lamp.

Watch closely at that flickering light

Don’t you think that the night view is so cruel?

That grandeur created by collection of someone’s thorns.

The thorns seem to be metaphor for sharp rays/peoples eyes/hurt. But just like moonlight creates a grandeur, sometimes the beautiful things are created by a collection of hurt/injuries.

Surely, there will be someone who will be comforted by your thorns

We’re each other’s night view, each other’s moon

We’re each other’s night view, each other’s moon

We’re each other’s night view, each other’s moon

We’re each other’s night view, each other’s moon

The lyrics are very poetic, but as such, quite vague and can encompass a lot of different meaning

EDIT: Please see “~(￣▽￣)~” comment below about other interpretation. RM is vague and complicated, so trying to think of this song in many ways…

Moonchild, don’t cry

When moon rise it’s your time

C’mon y’all

Moonchild, you shine

When moon rise it’s your time

C’mon y’all