Fireflies by Faith Hill

This is such a great song, written by a woman named Lori McKenna and recorded by Faith Hill. Some of you may have seen this episode of Oprah.

Before you met me I was a fairy princess
I caught frogs and called them prince
And made myself a queen
And before you knew me I'd traveled 'round the world
And I slept in castles
And fell in love
Because I was taught to dream

I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top
To capture Tinker Bell
And they were just fireflies to the untrained eye
But I could always tell

Cause I believe in fairy tales
And dreamer's dreams
Like bedsheet sails
And I believe in Peter Pan
And miracles, anything I can to get by
And fireflies

Now before I grew up I saw you on a cloud
And I could bless myself in your name
And pat you on your wings
And before I grew up I heard you whisper so loud
Well life is hard and so is love
Child, believe in all these things

I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top
To capture Tinker Bell
And they were just fireflies to the untrained eye
But I could always tell

Cause I believe in fairy tales
And dreamer's dreams
Like bedsheet sails
And I believe in Peter Pan
And miracles, anything I can to get by . . .
And fireflies
And fireflies . . .

Before you met me I was a fairy princess
I caught frogs and called them prince
And made myself a queen
And before you knew me I'd traveled 'round the world
And I slept in castles
And fell in love

Because I was taught to dream



"Lori McKenna won the 2004 Boston Music Award for Female Singer-Song-writer of the Year and wrote songs for Faith Hill's album Fireflies. She's also married to a plumber, is the mother of five children, uses the family's minivan as her tour bus and lives near the working class Massachusetts town where she grew up. McKenna, who has won comparisons to the likes of Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith, makes her major label debut with Bittertown, a transcendent Americana album of small town anthems."