Oceanize the "Fireflies": Music for Insomniacs . . .

Owl CD?

(Image from Wikipedia)

I kept hearing this song "Fireflies" for the past several months, mostly in the English Lounge run by the EPO, the department that I work for at Ewha Womans University, but I didn't know who was singing it until I happened upon this interview "Owls, Fireflies, and Jesus" in Christianity Today with Adam Young of the band Owl City and discovered that this "young man" of just 23 not only sings it, but also wrote it.

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, open another browser so that you can listen to the video play as you read the lyrics below:

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave tear drops everywhere
You'd think me rude but I would just stand and
Stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems

Cause 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 sock-hop beneath my bed
The disco ball is just hanging by a thread
(Thread, thread...)

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)

Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
Cause 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
(Ha-ha)

To ten million fireflies
I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell
(Said farewell)
But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar
(Jar, jar, jar...)

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

If you like official websites, here's the one for Owl City . . . but you'll be greeted there by music, so be forewarned if, like me, you prefer silence when you click onto a new website (or even onto an old one).

This, by the way, is the only song by Owl City that I know, so most of you probably know far more than I, but as I confessed yesterday, I'm ignorant.

Oh, and I like "Fireflies" -- it's catchy . . .