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 j**el 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 pa**
When the healing hands of autumn cool me down