I've got to go with the idea that it's a reflection on childhood, as apposed to the 'adult' world we live in, where it's suit and tie, coffee and to-go mug, paycheck and bills.
When we were kids, all we cared about was lunch, recess, snack, playtime, games, friends, sleep, and making sure our immaginations run overtime. Now, most of those things are things we wished we still had time for.
When i was a kid, i always liked sleeping, because i could escape my troubles, which at that time were few, and therefore more significant, and i could dream about things that, in my mind, were just as real as the things we felt, smelt, and touched. But i was stuck in this epic battle between playing out late, having fun, or going to sleep. Now, because our problems are everywhere, we just kind of accept it. So these days of hide and seek, building forts, playing games, and inhancing our immaginations dissapear, and it's like a little part of us dies, and is replaced with the 'adult' world we are supposed to fit into.
Despite this, it seems the song writer has been able to save some of these memories, because you can't really kill the best part of your life.
To me, these three sections explain the whole song to me:
Because I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sockhop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
When I fall asleep leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
Because i feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep?
To ten million fireflies
I'm weird because I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell
But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
Because I saved a few and I keep them in a jar
In the first one, i think the disco ball is the important one. He says it's hanging by a thread. I take this as his child hood is hanging by a thread, his fun and play is barly there anymore. In the last one is where i think he talks about beeing able to hold on to something that has almost completely died out. "...I saved a few and and i keep them in a jar"
I think it's really important that we keep some of these memories. It just makes life better. Architects understand this. I'm in an architecture class, and the only thing we all really have in common is our immaginations still work overtime, and we still like to have fun, even though we do have to be serious, and get things done, but that's not important, that's just to pay the bills.
I've got to go with the idea that it's a reflection on childhood, as apposed to the 'adult' world we live in, where it's suit and tie, coffee and to-go mug, paycheck and bills.
When we were kids, all we cared about was lunch, recess, snack, playtime, games, friends, sleep, and making sure our immaginations run overtime. Now, most of those things are things we wished we still had time for.
When i was a kid, i always liked sleeping, because i could escape my troubles, which at that time were few, and therefore more significant, and i could dream about things that, in my mind, were just as real as the things we felt, smelt, and touched. But i was stuck in this epic battle between playing out late, having fun, or going to sleep. Now, because our problems are everywhere, we just kind of accept it. So these days of hide and seek, building forts, playing games, and inhancing our immaginations dissapear, and it's like a little part of us dies, and is replaced with the 'adult' world we are supposed to fit into.
Despite this, it seems the song writer has been able to save some of these memories, because you can't really kill the best part of your life.
To me, these three sections explain the whole song to me:
Because I'd get a thousand hugs From ten thousand lightning bugs As they tried to teach me how to dance A foxtrot above my head A sockhop beneath my bed A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
When I fall asleep leave my door open just a crack (Please take me away from here) Because i feel like such an insomniac (Please take me away from here) Why do I tire of counting sheep (Please take me away from here) When I'm far too tired to fall asleep?
To ten million fireflies I'm weird because I hate goodbyes I got misty eyes as they said farewell But I'll know where several are If my dreams get real bizarre Because I saved a few and I keep them in a jar
In the first one, i think the disco ball is the important one. He says it's hanging by a thread. I take this as his child hood is hanging by a thread, his fun and play is barly there anymore. In the last one is where i think he talks about beeing able to hold on to something that has almost completely died out. "...I saved a few and and i keep them in a jar"
I think it's really important that we keep some of these memories. It just makes life better. Architects understand this. I'm in an architecture class, and the only thing we all really have in common is our immaginations still work overtime, and we still like to have fun, even though we do have to be serious, and get things done, but that's not important, that's just to pay the bills.