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.