Gather Round, My Fireflies

Gather round, my fireflies
No more fun in this house tonight
And you know I'll always light the way
I let him in just to feel okay

I'm trying to heal but I keep on hurting
I want to play to avoid the pain
Call me a fiend for a moment of bliss
Only for that to go up in flames
Now I'm all alone, on my playground built for me
Abandoned my hope, ye who exits here is me
Following the buzzards, no chance for my mercy
From ashes to dust, I was doused in gasoline

Gather round, my fireflies
No more fun in this house tonight
And you know I'll always light the way
I let him in just to feel okay

Hey Mr. Rainstorm, hey Mr. Sunshine
Where the hell y'all been since the meeting if the minds
No even keel, just Key and Peele through the pain
Making jokes to cope instead having hope to be saved
Damn, wake up everyday day feeling doomed
Need a real connection, not just Wi-Fi for zoom
Therapy online, new prescriptions for food
And they wonder why suicide rate be jumping like shooting hoops
Damn, this world got me stressing on the track
Couple decades of this shit making me want to go back
To a time where birthday parties were the time of your life
And you didn't have to worry 'bout where you sleeping tonight
Now I'm fortunate
My momma's dead but father has been holding it
Down for a minute now, passing the crown onto his
Son, that he raised like he gon' be king, he always did
Believe in him to be anything that he want to be
Momma told me when I grow up I'm gon' be a king
Poppa told me when I'm sad that it's okay to sing
Only if as long as you do not forget your dreams
Cause they'll be the only thing that you got in this life
That you got in this life
Blow some Cloud for a minute, call it dealing with Strife
Sometimes a mind with a pen better than a hand with knife
That's why music the only thing I fucking got in this life

Gather round, my fireflies
No more fun in this house tonight
And you know I'll always light the way
I let him in just to feel okay