When I was a girl growing up in upstate New York, we would play outside in the fields and hillsides of our neighborhood until way past dark. One of our favorite past times was to wait for the fireflies to come out. We’d see one or two, then slowly more and more of the tiny little sparks of starlight would begin to gently glow, on and off, on and off, under the pine trees of the hot and humid August night.
Decades later my grown daughter called me late at night from a concert she was attending in Nashville, TN. I answered the phone and she said: “Mom!! OMG! Have you ever seen FIREFLIES?!! THEY’RE AMAZING!!!”
I hadn’t thought about those summer nights for many years, and suddenly I was back there under the trees, following the glowing beacons of the fireflies. I wrote this song not long after my daughter’s phone call.
As I worked on the song, I realized that fireflies, like all second density creatures of animal and plant life, are embued with the Love/Light that permeates all of our physical and metaphysical beingness on the planet. They receive their light from the One Creator…the same light that is in each of us, each Heart, each Soul. A firefly may carry that light always, but its glow is not always visible, just as our own light is sometimes hidden by our inner shadows. Fireflies meander…they wander…they are each a shining, solitary beacon, yet they gather in multitudes in the balmy August evening to illuminate the darkness. We are compelled to follow…we want to hold their glow, that light of fireflies.
FIREFLIES
Music/Lyrics by Elaine Lucia
Twilight falls, the evening calls from underneath the pines
Below a starlit canopy, a balmy August night
You see them start to glow so soft and low
You want to follow where they go
They lead you to where they began somewhere beyond the sun
To catch a bit of starlight, bring it back to everyone
Their tiny spark ignites your heart
Your wanderlust begins to start
You want to hold the glow
The Light of fireflies.
Their gentle beacon lights the way you follow with your Heart
On your path to Heaven, just a single footstep starts
So follow now, I’ll show you how
To take your hand and gently try to
Hold the glow
The Light of fireflies.
See the Light that shines so bright from
Fireflies that light our nights.
The Light that shines in fireflies’ the same that shines in you
Close your eyes, it never dies, it lights your way to Truth
So follow now, I’ll show you how
To take your hand and gently try again
Hold the glow
The Light of fireflies.
And when the long evening is done
We find ourselves facing the Sun.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved writing and recording it, and creating this video.
The vast majority of the firefly footage is from Radim Schreiber, who has been filming the beautiful and endangered fireflies for many years. Check out his wonderful website here: https://fireflyexperience.org.
Love and Peace and Unity Thru Music,
Elaine
Comment I can’t help but smile when I listen to this song! I love it light and innocence. Thank you for sharing this Elaine! simply beautiful!