Firefly

A single perfect dewdrop falls
The first pearl of the morning
And as the air surrounding warms
And darkness sails 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 at a cost (but it comes at such a cost)
If you're sensing something permanent (sense that something's lost)
It's loss
But a line (but a line has been crossed)
Has been crossed
An argument to which there's no riposte (to which there's no riposte)

It's that singularity
It's your own mortality (it's your own mortality)
It's the punishment and prize
It's the lights before your eyes (it's the lights before your eyes)
Come alive (come alive, oh, firefly)
Oh, firefly of mine

Tomorrow is unreachable
Tomorrow is invention
Tomorrow is unteachable
It's where the answers hide
It's where we don't survive

How precious is this time we've left?
How priceless every moment?
We must abandon hopeless quests
This business, our forgiveness
This notion of a token

But it comes at a cost (but it comes at such a cost)
If you're sensing something permanent (sense that something's lost)
It's loss
But a line (but a line has been crossed)
Has been crossed
An argument to which there's no riposte (to which there's no riposte)

It's that singularity
It's your own mortality (it's your own mortality)
It's the punishment and prize
It's the lights before your eyes (it's the lights before your eyes)
Come alive (come alive, oh, firefly of mine)
Oh, firefly of mine

But it comes (but it comes at such a cost)
At a cost
If you're sensing something permanent (sense that something's lost)
It's loss
But a line (but a line has been crossed)
Has been crossed
An argument to which there's no riposte (to which there's no riposte)

It's that singularity
It's your own mortality (it's your own mortality)
It's the punishment and prize
It's the lights before your eyes (it's the lights before your eyes)
Come alive (come alive, oh, firefly of mine)
Oh, firefly of mine

Do do do-do-do
Do do do-do-do
Do do do-do-do