Ladies & Gentlmen, we proudly present the lyrics to Firefly (imagine raucous applause & cheers of delight):

HAPPY
( © 97 Lesley Wright/Scott Johnson)

I remember skipping stones
On El Dorado Lake back home
Butterflies in desert skies
How I miss those times alone

I recall the way sunlight
Played upon your face
Reminding me of lemon pie
And I could really use a taste now

I believe there's something better
I believe there's something more
Than faded pictures
I believe there's something true
Trapped in the past
I believe it's you
I believe it's you

Spark the flame burning out
Don't you think we both deserve to be
Happy now
Are you happy now
Are you happy

What if I was wild and brave
And took a rocket from L.A.
Would anything remain
I hope it's not too late


TIDAL WAVE UNDERTOW
(© 97 Lesley Wright/Joel Burns)

I can't wait while you float
Through your indecision
Tidal wave undertow
What you save it won't hold
Your split decision
Tidal wave undertow

You're reaching for a rusty nail to hang my heart
One to impail beyond the glimmer of a spark
But fire breaths beneath that furnace you shut down
Don't be confused you won't find me hanging around (*)

Now my emotions are suspended in mid-air
Whatever it takes to guarantee you get your share
Drowning in your failed attempt to pacify
I'll disappear by the time you decide (*)

I'll wake you when I leave
Cause you're still fast asleep
You don't have what I need
I'm giving up, getting out, leaving
(solo - bridge - chorus out)


LATER ON
(© 96 Lesley Wright/Brian Sheff/Bryan Stone/Paul Madison/Tyler Suchman)

He said, everything dies at winter time
It's natural don't you concur
I just stared into that falling sky
As if I'd find the words
He said, don't look at me with such tragic eyes
It's really not so bad
I did not know how to respond
He said, I'll see you later on

Around summertime
When the fireflies
Flicker on the lake
And the ice and snow
Have melted down
I'll see you later on

If time froze on that winter night would things have changed
It's possible, but I doubt it
He was ready to walk that frozen mile
I had nothing to say about it
Better bundle up tight it's going to be a cold one
I'm talking to myself
Footprints in the snow, he's gone
He said, I'll see you later on

Around summertime
When the fireflies
Flicker on the lake
And the ice and snow
Have melted down
I'll see you later on
When the springtime blooms
Have come and gone
I'll see you later on
I'll see you later on

Running wild through the woods while the moon cast shadows upon your face
And the leaves on the trees falling down like rain upon the bed that we made
I'll take it upon myself to get healed
By the water that flows through that very same field
Where you took all the love that I had in my soul
And then disappeared in that first winter's snow

He said I thought of you when spring time came
I just turned away, I said
It's funny how one season's turn can bring a change
Now I see you as you are
And all those frozen nights I cried in vain
Have left me wise and strong
Now two seasons gone, you're still the same
I think I'll see you later on*


YOU DON'T NEED ANYTHING
(© 01 Lesley Wright)

You don't need anything
You don't need anything
You don't need anything but love
You don't need anything
You don't need anything
You don't need anything but love
You don't need anything but love

Picture yourself on a tiny white island
Sapphire sea kissing your feet
Picture your life the way that you want it
You can have everything with me (*)

Picture yourself on a snowy white mountain
Diamond like stars light up the dark
Creamsicle dreams with butterfly wings
Spinning round filling up your heart (*)


22 DAYS IN JUNE
(© 97 Lesley Wright)

Contemplating lemonade
Satin sky glows pink
The sun begins to fade
Summer wind
Feels so good against my skin
Conversation winds
He pulls me in

They fade so soon
Hope floated up
Just like a big balloon
So gentle warm and true
I will not forget
Those 22 days with you in June

Slip-n-slide in your backyard
When we were kids
The ground never seemed as hard
We stayed out
Until we counted every star
Just around Jupiter
You won my heart *

Faint taste of watermelon
Sweet upon your lips
Fire blazed beneath
The graze of fingertips
Moon light and starry skies
Shimmer on the lake
Love arrived in 22 days


NOT BEAUTIFUL
( © 97 Scott Johnson/lesley Wright)

You knock me down till I'm 2 feet tall
With a back hand swing
Designed to fall my confidence
Filled with discontent

Rewind the frame to long ago
I was staring out the window
While you cited all the reasons
I'm not beautiful

I'll never be a super model
I'm just not that tall
To you that means that I'm
Not beautiful
Not beautiful

Insecurity ruled my heart
Spitting doubt upon every spark
A tidal wave
I was choking on the rage

Your floor littered with magazines
Flawless faces of beauty queens
Perfection
Consuming self-esteem (*)

It took some time but I came to find
Beauty shines from a light inside
And all along I realize
You were wrong

Cause I may not be a super model
Standing 6 feet tall
But that doesn't mean that I'm
Not beautiful
I'll never be a super model
I'm not perfect or tall
But that doesn't mean that I'm
Not beautiful
Not beautiful
Not beautiful


SORRY
(© 96 Lesley Wright)

I'll make you sorry
I'll make you feel all my pain
I'll make it so hard to forget about me
You'll beg me to remain

You think it's funny
I guess you've got something to prove
But when you wind your way back to me
You'll find me far removed

It's better we never made it that far
Whatever you sever
May end up breaking your own heart

No, you won't stumble
Until you're too far to return
And it's a long way back from uncertainty
When the forest through the trees has burned

But don't be bitter
Because the choice was all your own
The glimmering path to freedom
Led you here alone *

Stricken by your loneliness
Funny, now you acquiesce
Did you forget
You left quite a mess

You compromised the very heart of me
Squandered love so carelessly
It's not enough
That you've come back to me *


10 YEAR BAD DECISION
(© 97 Lesley Wright/Brian Sheff)

It's a 10 year bad decision
You shouldn't waste your life
Cause you made a life commitment
That alone won't make it right

It's been bad so long
Don't you think it's time you changed

I remember you
I was seventeen
Living life and love was new
But we've awoken from that dream

It's been so long
Did you think it'd be the same

You think it's easy for me to walk away
You don't realize how bad I want to stay
What I want to say
But I just can't say
And I can't stay
You know it's not my place

So you come to me
And you speak of love
But you forget you wear her ring
And that simple truth is truth enough

I won't break that bond
You've got to make that change

Cause what you want
And what I need
Exists on different pages
Bound together by a common history

We've come so far
How could it be the same *

You've got me thinking bout it
All the time
Looking back to when
You used to be mine
But we can't go back
To the way it used to be
Cause you've built your life
And there's just no room for me

Just a 10 year bad decision
Don't waste your life
Tell me what's this life commitment
From the start it was never right

It's been bad so long
Don't you think it's time you
Changed
You changed
You changed

DROWN
(© 98 Lesley Wright)

Today is the first day
Of the rest of my life
Without your sunshine
Without your light

And it's hard to admit
Your heart wasn't in it
Fall so cold
Everything splintered
How we survived winter
I don't know

Boxes of pain
Beneath scattered rain

April showers
Bringing me down
Hope floats away on the clouds

Somewhere in Tucson
Angels released
Strings to the stars
Now they're falling hard

Leaving holes where they hit
Craters and divots
Permanent scars
Futile attempts
To buffer the dents
Wounding my heart

I wrestle the blame
Beneath pounding rain

April showers
Bringing me down
Hope floats away on the clouds
April showers
Are bringing me down
Love drifts away and I drown

I got in my lifeboat
You ran it a ground
Without a life line
You're sucking me down
I try to maintain
I'm no match for this rain (*)


STRAIGHT RAZOR
( © 97 Lesley Wright)

Got a straight razor in my brain
Cutting out perfect strips of pain
Cutting out every thought
I ever had of you

Straight jacket round my heart
Squeezing out every little part
Squeezing out all the love
I ever felt for you

I've come so far
Since you crashed my car
Since you left me stranded back in Houston
It's not so hard
When you play that part
How could I know you'd be so stupid

Got a straight razor in my brain
Straight razor in my brain
It's a straight razor in my brain
In my brain

Got a tourniquet on my veins
All the bleeding is contained
Cause I lost an awful
Lot of blood on you

Pistol in my hand
My private trigger man
And he shoots a lot
Steadier than you do

Well I got the point
When I left Detroit
And I didn't miss you like I used to

It's not so hard
When you play that part
How could I know you'd be so stupid

Well I've come so far
Since you crashed my car
Since you
Left me stranded back in Houston
Well I got the point
When I left Detroit
I didn't miss you like I used to


ECHO CANYON
( © 96 Lesley Wright)

Somewhere drowning in that river of pain
Is a heart that's beating, it's beating in vain
You refuse to fly among the moon and the stars
So afraid, you stay right where you are

Take a chance you just can't fade away
The battles we've won, choices we've made
Rivers of time guiding us here
Can't you see the intention is clear

I'll be waiting for you
On Echo Canyon Road
Take the love that I've been saving
And tie it to your soul

Foreign and strange this is your life
So many years without any light
All of the love I know you deserve
Volumes of words spoken not heard

A heart so good yet fragile and weak
It would beat strong if you'd give it to me
Free yourself from that river of pain
Fall into the love and out of the rain

I'll be waiting for you
On Echo Canyon road
Take the love that I've been saving
And tie it to your soul
I'll be waiting for you
I'm finally coming home
Meet me at Echo Canyon
And never let me go
Don't let go