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 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 in 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 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

I start letting go and concede to the sky

And breathe in and out just a couple more times

Life moves slowly and suddenly