Meter fare sounds cold as rust tonight
Headlights count the bugs outside
Rusted gate still swings beneath the moon
I hear your laughter in the radio
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Wind combs silver through the wire
Old dashboard keeps a steady fire
Somewhere past the county line
That field begins to shine
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Floating where the quiet lies
Streetlights fade as midnight passes
I see you dancing in my eyes
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Carrying what neither of us names
Down the dark the summer carries
Little lights that feed our flames
Coffee goes bitter in a steel cup
Seat springs creak beneath the weight of rain
Every long road wears the same tracks up
Every lost mile sounds the same
[Pre-
Radio hums a faded chorus
Distant thunder grumbles off the hills
I brake beside the old fence
Two bright sparks beyond the lens
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Floating where the quiet lies
Streetlights fade as midnight passes
I see you dancing in my eyes
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Holding wishes I cannot state
Past the dark the summer carries
Little lights the years invite
Dawn will find our footprints tangled deep
Milkweed bowing by the rail
You left laughter where the grasses sleep
I leave questions by the trail
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Engine ticks like patience failing
Window fog recalls your name
Out beyond the headlights paling
A thousand sparks become a flame
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Softly through the midnight air
Old words sleep inside the blackness
Half remember being there
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Every spark a word unspoken
Past the dark the summer carries
All the roads I might have taken
Years have worn the vinyl down
Same old turn takes me downtown
Rains have washed my routes from town
Still that field waits somewhere around
[Pre-
Children laugh beyond the river
Frogs keep time beneath the grass
You and I stand in the weather
Holding seasons as they pass
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Glowing through the years between
Countless roads have crossed and passed
But none shine quite as clean
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Lighting what the daylight hides
Past the dark the summer carries
Love beneath the turning tides
I still park where cedar shadows fall
Engine cooling in the clay
You would laugh and light another spark
I would tell you not to go away
[Pre-
Morning leans against the dashboard
Dew burns off the waking field
Every road I drove this far
Brought me back where we are still
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Floating through the afterglow
All the words I never crossed
All the things I should have known
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Tiny lights that divide the dark
Past the road the summer carries
One small spark inside my heart
Fireflies drift over unmowed grass
Burnishing the places we have been
As the quiet turns to morning
I will find the field again
Headlights fade behind the road
Leaves the night with all it holds
One bright spark beneath the rain
One bright spark that knows my name
