Fireflies

After the ball dropped on New Years Eve,
I'm barefoot and running down Swallow Street.
My head is bleeding; I'm unaware.
I start blacking out, and I'm losing air.

I thought that I'd grow up and grow out of this.
I fall in love like a nervous tick.
I gave you the one thing you could not have earned:
The years of my youth you can not return.

The only thing I know for sure,
This has to do with you and her.

You wrote this script, I lived in it, so take a bow
And look me in the eye and say you're proud.
My captor and my rescue, you have played them well.
Tonight I will escape all by myself.

As I lie down in the frozen street,
I see that your shadow lies next to me.
This memory comes from a clear summer night.
There's an ocean of fireflies swimming the sky.

I'm dead or dreaming, I don't care,
But leave my body resting here.

You wrote this script, I lived in it, so take a bow
And look me in the eye and say you're proud.
My captor and my rescue, you have played them well.
Tonight I will escape all by myself.

Life moves slowly and suddenly.
Life moves slowly and suddenly.

A lifetime ago, in the blink of an eye,
I sat down beside you on a clear summer night.

Life moves slowly and suddenly.

I start letting go and concede to the sky
And breathe in and out just a couple more times.

Life moves slowly and suddenly.