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   You 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      But 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      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