Indigo Girls – Fare Thee Well chords
Chords:
[intro]C F Em7 Am7 Fare thee well, my bright starF6 G C/BI watched your taillights blaze into nothingnessC F Em7 Am9 But you were long gone before I ever got to youF6 G Am9 Am7 Before you blazed past this addressDm7 Em F6 GAnd now I think of having loved and having lostDm7 Em F6 GYou never know what it's like to never loveDm7 Em F6 GWho can say what's better when my heart's become the costAm7 D G A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from up aboveC F Em7 Am7Fare thee well, my bright starF6 G C/BThe vanity of youth, the color of your eyesC F Em7 Am9Maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-dayF6 G Am9 Am7Or if I'd been older I'd been wiseDm7 Em F6 GToo thick the heat of those long summer eveningsDm7 Em F6 GFor a cool evening I began to yearnDm7 Em F6 GBut you could only feed upon the things which feed a fireAm7 D G Waiting to see if I would burnC F Em7 Am7Fare thee well, my bright starF6 G C/BIt was a brief brilliant miracle diveC F Em7 Am9That which I looked up to and I clung to for dear lifeF6 G Am9 Am7Had to burn itself up just to make itself aliveDm7 Em F6 GAnd I caught you then, in your moment of gloryDm7 Em F6 GYour last dramatic scene against a night sky stageDm7 Em F6 GWith a memory so clear it's as if you're still before meAm7 D G My once in a lifetime star of an ageC F Em7 Am7So fare thee well, my bright starF6 G C/BLast night the tongues of fire circled me aroundC F Em7 Am9And this strange season of pain will come to passF6 G Am9 Am7When the healing hands of autumn cool me down