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Artist: Manchester Orchestra
Canonical path: /manchester-orchestra/the-moth
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The Moth
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The Moth
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I want it all, I want it free
But nobody's responding
The last thing that you heard was an inebriated slur
You can cry here all you want, but you don't live here anymore
There's a way out
There's a way in
There's a way out
There's a way in
Forced myself to take a different name
Buried with metonymy
Decide for me
Throw the man you used to be away
Bury him with rivalry entirely
My entire life you've been obsessing with the light
The closer that you get, the further up you've got to climb
You wanna hear it hurt, you wanna feel it when he dies
If you walk that path alone, you've got to look him in the eye
There's a way out
There's a way in
There's a way out
There's a way in
Forced myself to take a different name
Buried with metonymy
Decide for me
Throw the man you used to be away
Bury him with rivalry entirely
Forced myself to take a different name
Buried with metonymy
Decide for me
Throw the man you used to be away
Bury him with rivalry entirely
What about our future?
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Manchester Orchestra performs "The Moth", and this lyric page sits inside the Manchester Orchestra catalog on LyroVerse.
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