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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I wasn't attached to the lyrics one way or another, but the new lyrics feel really poetic to me. It's her acknowledging that he was going to leave regardless, and she just happened to be the person he left for. He was a moth, and she was the brightest light at the time he decided to leave.