Fare Thee Well
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
And 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
David Crosby "Thousand
Roads" flipside of "Hero"
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