Fare Thee Well Lyrics

Lyric discussion by EZEebs 

Cover art for Fare Thee Well lyrics by Indigo Girls

One of the saddest songs I know; it is about being afraid of love and getting scared off by a passionate love ... "To thick the heat off those long summer evenings" ... she felt vulnerable and grew emotionally distant until the love left.

@EZEebs, You are WAY off. This song is about being in love with someone who is bi-polar. She is so in love with her, but the person does not stay, and she know it wouldn't last: "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."

Does not know if it's worth the cost, but she know it's her heart that shall be broken: "And now I think of having loved and having lost—you never know what...