"I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly."

"You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. 'Cause they'd fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere. You'd think me rude, but I would just stand and stare. I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly. It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep 'cause everything is never as it seems."

It is true, isn't? Life doesn't last long-- the world seems to turn too fast for any of us to catch up with it. We'd like to make ourselves believe that it doesn't-- but that doesn't stop it. Wishing and believing and dreaming doesn't stop anything. Sometimes, I wish I could take everything important in my life and save them all up in a little jar like fireflies so that they could never get away from me. But I guess that life doesn't ever give you a little jar to save up dreams and wishes like fireflies, because they were meant to fly away, free, into the night. Maybe, if you look close enough at the stars, you'll see one with little wings, and it'll flit away as you make a wish, to someone else's window, someone else's sky, and they'll make a wish too, and maybe one day, all the wishes on fireflies in a jar will come true.

"When I fall asleep...........

...........my dreams are bursting at the seams."