the reward of this experience is in making the experience exist. thank you, reese, and i hope i get to learn from you!

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something comforting (featherweight demo)

based on rizal's "the story of the moth"

v1: 
your lips become my eyes
paint over my unvivid mind
my child-like flame that singes time
where i am yours and you are mine

v2:
 abstract the yin and yang
tangerines left broken in
no detail is without a sin
my mother, won’t you tell me how this ends?

  chorus:
 like a choir of moths
i flock closer to your fire
repeat your life’s troubles
carbon-copy our demise
to err is to be human so why should you be so hard on you?
see the warmest burn with me 

bridge:
 my body remembers
how i hunger and i thirst
my body recalls
all the murmurs that it heard
my body embodies
all the things i couldn’t be
all the things you see in me

moth_demo

a song about a certain hero, childlike wondering, parental expectations, generational scars, & an invitation to stop history from repeating itself.

super huge thanks to jad for lending his time and studio to come up with a proof-of-concept for this shelved song.

vocals, guitars, lyrics & drums - migs mosuela
bass, additional guitars, & keys - jad lara
both of us engineered, mix & mastered the track.

lyrics:
 
v1:
 your lips become my eyes
paint over my unvivid mind
my child-like flame that singes time
where i am yours and you are mine

v2:
 abstract the yin and yang
tangerines left broken in
no detail is without a sin
my mother, won’t you tell me how this ends?  

chorus: 
like a choir of moths
i flock closer to your fire
repeat your life’s troubles
carbon-copy our demise
to err is to be human
 so why should you be so hard on you?
see the warmest burn with me 

bridge:
 my body remembers
how i hunger and i thirst
my body recalls
all the murmurs that it heard
my body embodies
all the things i couldn’t be
all the things you see in me

071924_moth_proofofconcept

V1
it’s not just once
i’m unintertwined
i cannot fall from a thousand cuts
but maybe a thousand more just might

twice, more than thrice
i become your vice
be the crutch, rely on your favorite fool
half empty with things i’ve yet to prove


>INTER<

>VERSE<
a torrid mess double-guessing since
what of the love i give to you
you take it for granted anyway

PC
sticks & castellated stones
fit so crookedly at home
why do i make do with make-believe
i’d rather all my bones be torn

C
why can’t i want what i want?
why can’t i want what i want?
why can’t i want what i want when all i wanted’s
to love and to be loved?

why can’t i want what i want?
why can’t i want what i want?
why can’t i want to be seen as more than who i could be for you?

featherweight

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