Lyrics:
Robert Hunter
Music:
Peter Monk&
Phil Lesh Reprinted with permissions copyright
Ice Nine Publishing
Recordings
Terrapin Station (Studio 1977)
Dick's Picks 18 (5 Feb 1978)
Dead Set (? Oct 1980)
First performance: May 17, 1977 at Memorial Coliseum, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Firefly
Can you see me?
Shine on, glowing
Brief and brightly
Could you imagine
One summer day
That same night
Be on your way
Do you remember?
Hearts were too cold
Seasons had frozen us
Into our souls
People were saying
The whole world is burning
Ashes were scattered
Too hard to turn
Upside out
Or inside down
False alarm, the only game in town
No man's land, the only game in town
Terrible, the only game in town
Passenger
Don't you hear me?
Destination
Seen unclearly
What is a man
Deep down inside
But a raging beast
With nothing to hide
Upside out
Or inside down
False alarm, the only game in town
No man's land, the only game in town
Terrible, the only game in town
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In an interview in Dupree's Diamond News, issue #28, Lesh says of "Passenger":
"What's weird about that song is I sort of did it as a joke. It's a take on a Fleetwood Mac tune called "Station Man." I just sort of sped it up and put some different chord changes in there..."