Indigo Girls - Fare thee well

[pvtiongson]

Listening to this song brings me back to my younger years when all that made me truly was what I had before me. Beautiful. So beautiful it still stings.

[denimsoldier]

So complex and so satisfying.......if only.

[katchoo71]

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

[katchoo71]

and now i think of having loved and having lost

but never know what it's like to never love

who can say what'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

[katchoo71]

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 i clung to for dear life

had to burn itself up just to make itself alive

[katchoo71]

and i caught you then in your moment of glory

your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage

with a memory so clear that it's as if you're still before me

my once in a lifetime star of an age

so 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"

[mylaajero]

hope someone could post the lyrics too...

[mylaajero]

one of my favorite songs...

classic in its simplicity...

yet very poignant & moving in its words.

i wonder who has heard this song & has read "THE GIFT OF ACABAR" by Og Mandino?

i wonder if the Indigo Girls has read this book?

i could swear... the lyrics & melody of this song matches perfectly with the story.

i've been wanting to meet a person who has both read the book & heard this song...