Firefly

A single perfect dew drop forms

The first pearl of the morning

And as the air surrounding warms

And darkness ebbs away

Another fragile day

She's there observing silently

A witness to creation

She understands the irony

This is her final scene

A picture in a dream

The way it's always been

But it comes as a cost

With this sense that something permanent is lost

That a line has been crossed

An argument to which there's no riposte

That's a singularity

It's your own mortality

It's the punishment and prize

It's the lights before your eyes

Come alive, oh firefly of mine

Tomorrow is un-reachable

Tomorrow is invention

Tomorrow is un-teachable

It's where the answers hide

It's where we don't arrive

How precious is the time we've left

How priceless every moment

We must abandon hopeless quests

This business of forgiveness

This notion of atonement

But it comes as a cost

With this sense that something permanent is lost

That a line has been crossed

An argument to which there's no riposte

That's a singularity

It's your own mortality

It's the punishment and prize

It's the lights before your eyes

Come alive, oh firefly of mine

But it comes as a cost

With this sense that something permanent is lost

That a line has been crossed

An argument to which there's no riposte

That's a singularity

It's your own mortality

It's the punishment and prize

It's the lights before your eyes