[Verse 1]
There should have been only fireflies
Not the hunger of wolves
No child should learn the shape of fear
Before the softness of the world
Bare feet should know the summer grass
Before a heart knows dread
Held by wonder, held by love
With peaceful dreams ahead
[Pre-Chorus]
Every child is born with wonder
Every heart begins a flame
And no darkness has the right
To reach inside and stake its claim
[Chorus]
There should have been only fireflies
Little lanterns in the night
Summer grass and open skies
Hands that held them safe and tight
There should have been only fireflies
No wolves waiting in the dark
Every child deserves their wonder
Every child deserves their spark
[Verse 2]
The crime lies not in harm alone
But every hand that failed the flame
Every watchman looking somewhere else
Every silence without a name
And still beneath the ash of grief
Some ember draws a breath
A light no cruelty wholly took
A spark that answered not to death
[Pre-Chorus]
Beneath the wounds the world can’t see
A guarded flame survives
Trembling underneath the dark
But still it turns toward light
[Chorus]
There should have been only fireflies
Little lanterns in the night
Summer grass and open skies
Hands that held them safe and tight
There should have been only fireflies
No wolves waiting in the dark
Every child deserves their wonder
Every child deserves their spark
[Bridge]
Though wolves may circle in the dark
They cannot claim the dawn
Though someone stole the peace they knew
The light is not all gone
So let us keep the vigil now
Where watchmen looked away
And speak their names like lanterns lit
Against the coming gray
[Final Chorus]
There should have been only fireflies
Little lanterns in the night
Bare feet running through the summer
Never learning how to hide
There should have been only fireflies
No child carrying these scars
For every child denied their peace
Still carries light beyond the dark
[Outro]
Only fireflies
That’s all the dark should hold
Only fireflies
And a child still free to wonder
At the world
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