Moss

"Moss" is the fourth track from Act II of The Smashing Pumpkins' 2023 rock opera, ATUM. According to Billy Corgan, as a song of propaganda within the story of ATUM, it's intentionally sanded down to be easy to understand.

The song went through a few iterations, first beginning as a "creepy electronic song". Then a more rock-oriented approach was attempted, before the band landed on the final studio version.

Synopsis
In the song "Neophyte", June decides she'd rather be near Shiny and takes "The March of Life" just as he did. This alerted the other exiles in space, who all decided as a form of rebellion to also take "The March of Life". Meanwhile on Earth, the general public starts to notice what's happened. The situation put pressure on the government to make a statement. "Moss" is the statement the head of the X+I makes in attempt to reassure the public that they have everything under control, and that the public didn't see what they think they saw.