Songfacts®:

• On this becalmed track, Jack Johnson sings about why the best moments in life, such as love, can't be planned. Often these times of bliss are out there waiting for us to take up.
• You can meet the moonlight any night you really wanna
  It's waiting in your own backyard
  You can make the flame meet the kindling, make the fire
  Don't let anybody say it's too hard
  
  In this song, the moonlight symbolizes stepping outside the four walls. "Even though the stars are beautiful in Hawaii and we're lucky to have that sky, all too often I'm inside during the night," Johnson told UK newspaper The Sun. "But sometimes I'll walk outside, maybe to take the trash out, and I'll think, 'How do I not walk out here every night? This is crazy, all I had to do was go through the doorway.'"
• Johnson likes to communicate these pleasurable moments as they arise. "Whenever you find yourself just sitting in the shade, maybe drinking a lemonade with a friend, and you think to yourself, 'Well, this is really nice,' it's good to say it out loud," he said. "I always try it on my kids. If the family's together and we're playing cards, I tell them, 'Hey, this is as good as it gets, right here'. Because it really is."
• "Meet The Moonlight" is the title track of Jack Johnson's eighth album. The singer worked with California-based producer and session guitarist Blake Mills on the album. Mills' other collaborations include team-ups with Alabama Shakes, Fiona Apple, Laura Marling and John Legend.
• The song ends with an 80-second guitar outro. "I can't imagine it being any shorter now, but when we first played it, I thought it would have a fade out or we might edit it," Johnson told Relix. "But as were finishing up and starting to think about the sequencing, Blake was really adamant: 'No, you've got to leave the whole thing. It's beautiful.'"