Fireflies - Peter Brown

There’s a boy running fast through the tall moonlit grass

Wide eyed with fear and with wonder

In the branches of oak and the shadows of pine

He sees phantoms way up high and down under

He follows in the night

The sparkles in the breeze

Dancing underneath the sky

Even though he’s scared of the darkness everywhere

He’s chasing after fireflies

Yes, even though he’s scared of the darkness everywhere

He’s chasing after fireflies

Now watching and shaking the flash in his jar

He marvels as he sets it free

Cus' he catch just a moment of magic in light

Is worth of all the danger there might be He follows in the night

The sparkles in the breeze

Dancing underneath the sky

Even though he’s scared of the darkness everywhere

He’s chasing after fireflies

Yes, even though he’s scared of the darkness everywhere

He’s chasing after fireflies

One spark in a deep dark night can bring this boy such sweet delight

The dream now forgotten

The strange lovely tune

The word on the tip of the tongue

From out of the blackness and out of the blue

Is here for an instant in dawn

He follows in the night

The sparkles in the breeze

Dancing underneath the sky

For in every heart is a child with a jar

Chasing after fireflies

Still chasing after fireflies