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Song For The Fireflies
Josh Ritter

After all the lights had died

Out behind the Palasades Park

Fireflies remembered to do

Exactly what they were supposed to


And memories were like coins

That tumbled somersaulting through the deep

Down every well we threw them in

Until they came to the top again


And out like the sun

In your hair, in your hair


Every month that ends its spin

Is picked up by the moon for keeping

Clean and safe from accidents

Sheltered from the elements


But June is like an echo


Of the sounds we never made

I swear they find me in my waking hours

Thirty days like poison flowers


The wind in your hair

Like a sigh, like a sigh


With intermittent rain and shine

The sky restarted six or seven times

It's blue because it sees all our infidelities


We both know that it's been so long

I'm not sure what to say, so I hope

Fireflies remember to do exactly

What it was they used to


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