When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail

And the dust of another world drops behind


When my ship is free of the open sky


That's a damn good day to my way of mind

There's a barren planet you never can leave


There's a rocky valley where we lost a war


There's a cross once hung round a soldier's neck

There's a man's faith died on Serenity's floor





But I stood my ground and I'll fly once more

The last oath that I ever swore





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Take my love, take my land


Take me where I cannot stand


I don't care, I'm still free

You can't take the sky from me


Take me out into the black


Tell 'em I ain't comin' back

Burn the land and boil the sea


You can't take the sky from me


You can't take the sky from me




When you see a man and he's standin' alone


Well you might just take him for an easy mark

And there's many a man has tried his hand


And there's worse than wolves in the borderland dark


From the savage men to the government hounds

Try to take what's yours and tear you through


But them that run with me got my back


It's a fool don't know that his family's his crew




Don't tell me what I cannot do


Don't think I've got to run from you




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When you've walked my road, when you've seen what I've seen


Well you won't go talkin' 'bout righteous men

You'll know damn well why I want to keep to my sky


Never cry 'neath nobody's heel again

I've seen torment raked 'cross innocent souls

Seen sane men mad and good men die


I've been hounded, hated, married and tricked

Been tortured, cheated, shot and tied




You won't see no tears when I say goodbye

I've still got my family and my Firefly




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