"Coraline" is a rock ballad by Italian rock band Måneskin, from their second studio album, Teatro d'ira: Vol. I (2021). Although it was not released as a single it reached a Top 5 position in Finland, Greece and Lithuania. It received the double platinum certification by FIMI.

Overview
The rock ballad was initially written in a hotel room by band's vocalist Damiano David and guitarist Thomas Raggi. According to Thomas Raggi, the song has a progressive composition with an arpeggio. The voice and acoustic guitar from the beginning are later met with electric guitar, bass guitar and drums in a "very theatrical way". According to Ethan Torchio it is a "story with a beginning, a development and an end". As explained by lyrics writer, Damiano David, the girl's name is unrelated to the same-titled novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman, but rather it was inspired by a true story. It is talking about a fragile girl's life which is withering, a knight-errant who is helpless in front of her suffering, and that the "tale ends badly, there is no happy ending".

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2020 songs
2020s ballads
Italian-language songs
Måneskin songs
Number-one singles in Sweden
Rock ballads
Gothic rock songs
Songs written by Damiano David
Songs written by Victoria De Angelis