Owl City's debut single "Fireflies" became one of 2009's biggest tracks not just because of its catchy dream-like melody, but because of the weird-as-hell lyrics. The most notable lines are "'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs / From ten thousand lightning bugs / As they tried to teach me how to dance," which has FINALLY be explained eight years later.
Adam Young graciously broke down the lyrics in great detail to a fan on Twitter last night, as he posed a very important question that we're still wondering about: "Does each firefly hug you 1,000 times or do only 1/10th of the bugs give you a hug?" The musician finally settles the hullabaloo by saying he was embraced 1,000 times by 10,000 luminescent insects. Well there you have it folks!