Fare Thee Well
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by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
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performed by David Crosby
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(B-side of the "Hero" single)
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Fare thee well my bright star
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I watched your taillights blaze into nothingness
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But you were long gone before I ever got to you
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Before you blazed past this address
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And now I think of having loved and having lost
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But never know what it's like to never love
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Who can say that's better and my heart's become the cost
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A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from above
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Fare thee well my bright star
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The vanity of youth, the color of your eyes
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Aand maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-day
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Or if I'd been older I'd been wise
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Too thick the heat of those long summer evenings
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For a cool evening I began to yearn
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But you could only feed upon the things which feed a fire
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Waiting to see if I would burn
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Fare thee well my bright star
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It was a brief brilliant miracle dive
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That which I looked up to and clung to for dear life
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Had to burn itself up just to prove it was alive
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And I caught you then in your moment of glory
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Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage
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With a memory so clear it's as if you were still before me
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My once in a lifetime star of an age
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Fare thee well my bright star
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Last night the tongues of fire circled me around
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And this strange season of pain will come to pass
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When the healing hands of autumn cool me down
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Fare Thee Well
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David Crosby |