Fare Thee Well

by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)

performed by David Crosby

(B-side of the "Hero" single)



Fare thee well my bright star 

I watched your taillights blaze into nothingness 

But you were long gone before I ever got to you 

Before you blazed past this address 



And now I think of having loved and having lost 

But never know what it's like to never love 

Who can say that's better and my heart's become the cost 

A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from above



Fare thee well my bright star 

The vanity of youth, the color of your eyes 

Aand maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-day 

Or if I'd been older I'd been wise



Too thick the heat of those long summer evenings 

For a cool evening I began to yearn 

But you could only feed upon the things which feed a fire 

Waiting to see if I would burn



Fare thee well my bright star 

It was a brief brilliant miracle dive 

That which I looked up to and clung to for dear life 

Had to burn itself up just to prove it was alive



And I caught you then in your moment of glory 

Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage 

With a memory so clear it's as if you were still before me 

My once in a lifetime star of an age



Fare thee well my bright star 

Last night the tongues of fire circled me around 

And this strange season of pain will come to pass 

When the healing hands of autumn cool me down