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