[1] The song features country-influenced piano and pedal steel guitar, while its lyrics depict Mitski requesting the Moon to take her love when she dies and shine it back down to Earth.
The music video for the song was released on the same day as the album and directed by A.G. Rojas; it shows Mitski building a tower of chairs atop an egg before climbing it.
called the song "dusky lounge",[12] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic wrote that it was "seductively languid" with "orchestrated country stylings",[13] and Brenna Ehrlich of Rolling Stone wrote that it was a "goth-country epic"; Paste's Matt Mitchell also identified it as gothic country.
[14][15] Christopher J. Lee of PopMatters called it a "slow dance number" that depicts love as "a social condition experienced as part of the wider world", contrasting it with her previous albums' idea of it as "an insular situation between two people".
[19] Upon reaching the top of the tower, she sits on the chair sculpture, puts her hand over her eye to mimic looking through a spyglass and sees a sunset over an ocean.
[citation needed] Danielle Chelosky of Uproxx described the video as "eerie" and wrote that it "conveys the subtle poignance of the sprawling song".
[23] Alex Hooper of American Songwriter similarly wrote that the song "gets down to the core of the record" and praised it as a "stunner".
called the song "both heartbreaking and hopeful, the kind of careful balance that Mitski has fine tuned in the decade since her debut".
[35] In 2023, Mitski performed the song during her international tour of intimate venues for The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, where it was backed only by an acoustic guitar and a double bass.