Key: D
Introduction:
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Me and Charlie boy used to go walking, sittin' in the
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woods behind my house
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When being lovers meant a stolen kiss and holding hands
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with nobody else around
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Charlie said he wanted to get married, but we were only
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ten so we'd have to wait
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He said we'd never let our love run dry like so many do
these days
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Charlie always said he'd like to leave here, turned
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eighteen and left our sleepy town
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Letters came and went and I kept waiting for Charlie to
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come back and bring the life he'd found
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Funny how time and distance change you, the road you take
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don't always lead you home
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You can start a love with good intentions and then you
look up and it's gone
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Even now I sometimes think of Charlie, how we thought we
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new it all back then
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Now I'd give anything to feel love from a child's heart
again
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So we treat our love like a firefly, like it only gets to
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shine, for a little while
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Catch it in a mason jar and with holes in the top and run
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like hell to show it off
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Oh promises we made when we'd go walkin', that's just me
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and Charlie talking
So you treat your love like a firefly....