C.W. McCall Aurora Borealis Lyrics:
One night last summer we were camped at ten
thousand feet up where the air is clear, high in
the Rockies of Lost Lake, Colorado. And as the
fire burned low and only a few glowing embers
remained, we laid on our backs all warm in our
sleeping bags and looked up at the stars. And as I
felt myself falling into the vastness of the
Universe, I thought about things, and places, and
times. I thought about the time my grandma told me
what to say when I saw the evening star. You know,
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish
tonight. The air is crystal-clear up here; that's
why you can see a million stars. I remember a time
a bunch of us were in a canyon of the Green River
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in Wyoming; it was a night like this. And we had
our rafts pulled up on the bank an' turned over so
we could sleep on 'em, and one of the guys from
New York said, "Hey! Look at the smog in the sky!
Smog clear out here in the sticks!" And somebody
said, "Hey, Joe, that's not smog; that's the Milky
Way." Joe had never seen the Milky Way. And we saw
the Northern Lights once, in the Bitterroot
Mountains of Montana. They're like flames from
some prehistoric campfire, leaping and dancing in
the sky and changing colors. Red to gold, and blue
to violet... Aurora Borealis. It's like the
equinox, the changing of the seasons. Summer to
fall, young to old, then to now. And then
tomorrow... And then everyone was asleep, except
me. And as I saw the morning star come up over the
mountains, I realized that life is just a
collection of memories. And memories are like
starlight: they go on forever.
Lyrics: Aurora Borealis, C.W. McCall [end]