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Apr 28, 2017 · [Verse 1] The evil, it spread like a fever ahead. It was night when you died, my firefly. What could I have said to raise you from the dead? Oh, could I be the sky on the Fourth of July?...
The evil, it spread like a fever ahead. It was night when you died, my firefly. What could I have said to raise you from the dead? Oh, could I be the sky on the Fourth of July? "Well, you do enough talk. My little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me, what did you learn from the Tillamook burn? Or the Fourth of July? We're all gonna die"
A song about a conversation between Sufjan and his mother, who died of cancer in 2012. The lyrics use metaphors of fireflies, hawks, doves, and the Fourth of July to express the fleetingness of life and the hope of eternity.
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