Firefly is an American space western science fiction drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".
The show explores the lives of a group of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the fringe of society, as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today".
Oh, oh
Firefly, firefly
Shine your light tonight
Assist the moon and stars
In helping us
To ease our troubled minds
Firefly, firefly
Golden light of serenity, yeah
Show us the night naturally
And maybe she won't worry
When there ain't nothing I can do
When sea runs dry
And the stars fall from the sky
She's a vulnerable flower
And she believes in me
Even when I have to lie
I shouldn't have to lie
To make the world seem alright
Firefly, firefly
I come home with the weight
Of the world on my shoulders
But knowing the strength she sees in me
I smile because she believes in me
Firefly, firefly
Golden light of serenity, yeah
Show me the night naturally
And maybe she won't worry
When there ain't nothing I can do
When the sea runs dry
And the stars fall from the sky
She's a vulnerable flower
And she believes in me
Even when I have to lie
I shouldn't have to lie
To make the world seem alright
She's a vulnerable flower
And she believes in me
Even when I have to lie
I shouldn't have to lie
To make the world seem alright