Shadow Moss

"Shadow Moss" is an original song that I wrote in high school. It's about a previous crush that I had on a guy who was completely uninterested in me and was in love with a girl who was cheating on him with two other people at the same time. The name "Shadow Moss" really doesn't have anything to do with the song, but I named it that randomly because I was on vacation at Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos (Pennsylvania) while writing it. There's a magi quest game that you play there and it requires you to find the shadow moss painting, which is the only one that is sensitive to the magic wand you have to use. It goes off when you're standing really far away, so I heard the words "Shadow Moss" at least thirty times in one day and it was the first thing that popped into my head when naming this song! Haha! My friend and I later decided that the name "Shadow Moss" could mean that the guy I had a crush on viewed me as moss--something kind of gross and something that he didn't want anything to do with; the real me was like a shadow hidden behind the moss that he just couldn't see at that time.

Partial writing credits go to Maria Elena Martino, who wrote the chorus of this song.