Bright Star - Anaïs Mitchell

Bright star

When I first laid eyes upon you

I was filled with such a longing

To be with you in the dark

Bright star

Since I could not fly beside you

I would chart my own course by you

And I’d sail it by your light

Bright star

I have sailed in all directionsI

Have followed your reflection

To the farthest foreign shore

Bright star bright star

I have anchored in the harbors

I have brought my gifts to barter

For a drifter’s bed and board

Bright star

I have drunk the wine of ages

In the company of strangers

We havesung in tongues of angels

And then stumbled on the pavemnt

And I understood my place then

And my purpos in relation

To the young and ancient night

Bright star

I am home now from my roaming

I’m alone now in the gloaming

With the ships out in the yard

Bright star bright star

There’s a thought upon me dawning

You have launched a thousand longings

And I don’t know who you are

Bright star

You have never been my vessel

Or the wind my sails have wrestled

Or the lands to which I traveled

Or the friends with whom I reveled

There are lengths to which you’ll never

Know I went to be your lover

And beloved in your sight

Bright star

When I first laid eyes upon you

I was filled with such a longing

To be with you in the dark

Bright star

If I could have flown beside you

I would not have had the sight of you

To guide me through the world so wide

And bright