FIREFLIES

LEVEL 4Bb · 90 BPM · Owl City

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TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN

Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.

HOW TO PLAY

1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.

LYRICS

You would not be lieve your eyes if ten mil lion fire flies lit up the (F)world as I fell a (Bb)sleep.

’Cause they’d fill the (F)o pen air (Bb)and leave tear drops ev ’ry where.

You’d (C)think me rude, but (F)I would just stand (Bb)and stare.

I’d like to make my self be (Csus)lieve

that plan et (Bb)Earth

(F)turns

(Fmaj7)slow

(Bb)ly.

It’s hard to say that I’d (F)rath er stay a (Bb)wake when (C)I’m a (Dm)sleep, ’cause (Bb)ev ’ry thing is (F)nev er as it (F)seems.

’Cause I get a thou sand hugs from ten thou sand light ning bugs (F)as they try to teach me they how to (Bb)dance:

A fox trot a (F)bove my head, a sock hop be neath my bed, a (C)dis co ball is (F)just hang ing by a (Bb)thread.

I’d like to make my self be (Csus)lieve

that plan et (Bb)Earth

(F)turns

(F)slow

(Bb)ly.

It’s hard to say that I’d (F)rath er stay a (Bb)wake when (C)I’m a (Dm)sleep, ’cause (Bb)ev ’ry thing is (F)nev er as it (Csus)seems

when I (Dm)fall a (Bb)sleep.

Leave my door (F)o pen just a (Bb)crack, (Please take me a way from (C)here.) ’cause I feel like (F)such an in som ni (Bb)ac.

(Please take me a way from (F)here.) Why do I tire of count ing (Bb)sheep (Please take me a way from (C)here.) when I’m far too (F)tired to fall a (Bb)sleep?