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This is one of the first original folk songs I wrote when I started doing... all of this. I have no idea where the name "Belia" came from - she is certainly not a real figure and I don't recall where I heard it to draw from at the time of writing. Though "Belia" does not actually exist, I loved the idea of writing a ballad for a simulacra of a revolutionary hero and I think you could swap out her image for any number of actual historical figures and find the song be just as "true" to them as the imagery, while pretty specific, serves just as well as a metaphor for their lives.

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Belia liked to start fires
liked to watch old buildings burn
had a deep set belief
that everyone gets what they earn

she climbed to the belltower's top
and breathed in the sparkling new dawn
the cinders that caught in the breeze
like fireflies sparked and were gone

Belia she carried a flag
though it wasn't sewn from a cloth
and it didn't have an emblems
the message alone was enough

see Belia, she believed
that everyone could have enough
and it was the fault of so few
that so many have it so rough

and so her fires they'll burn
even when Belia is gone
and I, for one, believe
that her battle is already won

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from Crossroads of Galahad, released May 3, 2021
Guitar and Vocals - Austin Moffa
Written by - Austin Moffa

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Austin Moffa Fairfax, Virginia

Austin Moffa is a musician based out of Fairfax, VA. He has previously released 10 industrial/ambient albums under the pseudonym "ROZKOL". Moffa was born and grew up in a small Pennsylvanian town along the Allegheny Mountain Range.

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