Me and Charlie boy used to go walking,
Sittin’ in the woods behind my house
When being lovers meant a stolen kiss
And holding hands with nobody else around
Charlie said he wanted to get married
But we were only ten so we’d have to wait
He said we’d never let our love run dry
Like so many do these days

So we treat our love like a firefly,
Like it only gets to shine for a little while
Catch it in a mason jar and with holes in the top
And run like hell to show it off
Oh promises we made when we’d go walkin’,
That’s just me and Charlie talking

Charlie always said he’d like to leave here,
So he turned eighteen and he left our sleepy town
Letters came and went and I kept waiting for Charlie
To come back and bring the life he’d found
Funny how time and distance change you
The road you take don’t always lead you home
You can start a love with good intentions
And then you look up and it’s gone

So we treat our love like a firefly
Like it only gets to shine for a little while
Catch it in a mason jar and with holes in the top
And run like hell to show it off
Oh the promises we made when we were walking
That’s just me and Charlie talking

Even now I sometimes think of Charlie
And how we thought we knew it all back then
Now I’d give anything to feel love
From a child’s heart again

So we treat our love like a fire Fly
Like it only gets to shine for a little while
Catch it in a mason jar and with holes in the top
And run like hell to show it off
Oh the promises we made when we were walking
That’s just me and Charlie talking