Name: Moth
Duration: P00H04M09S
Description: Fourth and final single from upcoming album Best Dead Masterpiece, and an entirely true story. (Original release date: 9/27/2020)

Moth

from Best Dead Masterpiece by Sold Kingdom

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Fourth and final single from upcoming album Best Dead Masterpiece, and an entirely true story. (Original release date: 9/27/2020)

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Moth

That day I saw an amazing moth on the concrete
And I remarked on it to you
The pattern on its back like a geometric tattoo
And later when you were out
Through the locked door
While I was sitting in the middle of the floor
I heard the young couple upstairs who fight
And rumble sliding glass in the middle of the night
Come downstairs

And the girl saw the moth
And in a performance fit to reverberate
To the back of a vast theater
Cried out that it looked like a devil
And she didn't like the way it was watching her
And began goading the boy into killing it
And my muscles froze
And the boy didn't want to
And kept saying it wasn't doing nothing
And it's just as scared of you

But she wouldn't let up
As if it were a test of his love or manhood
And finally, my eyes stinging with tears that surprised me
I listened to the fall of the broom
One swat and eventually two

And even that wasn't enough for her
And my face burned with rage
And I wish to this day I'd stormed through that door
Flung myself under their incredulous gaze
Scooped it up and carried it away
But all I did was sit on the floor, eyes welling
And when I crossed the threshold later
Avoided looking down

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from Best Dead Masterpiece, released February 12, 2021
Lyrics and Music by L. Alexandra Manuel

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