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The Flame Chasing the Moth

from Let's Get Light by Let's Get Light

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I always remember this song sounding more like King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One than it actually does. But it's definitely the song most directly inspired by In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Introduces the lyrical theme of the flame and the moth.

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The Flame Chasing the Moth

There is a pilot in a cerulean sky going soft
Holding his side in and turning his eyes up aloft
Blinded and tired, he is an instrument waiting
For the stone to fall
Somewhere behind him
Its facets all shining
The flame chases the moth

He dreams he is standing on a carpet of rooftops
Like forget-me-not petals spread out on a lawn
Watching the jagged and fragmented shadows
Of mechanical birds rushing on
He reaches for his face as the window leaps inward
And kisses him on the mouth
His hands only holding
Bright petals unfolding
The flame chasing the moth

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from Let's Get Light, released June 22, 2021
Music and lyrics: Let's Get Light
Instruments and vocals: Let’s Get Light

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Let's Get Light Denver, Colorado

LGL made a pretty good album back in the aughts and then shelved it.

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