Aurora Borealis Songtext
von C.W. McCall

One night many many summers ago
We were camped at 12,000 feet
Up where the air is still clear
High in the Rockies at Lost Lake, Colorado
And as the fire burned down low
And only a few glowing coals remained
We laid on our backs
All warm in our sleeping bags
And looked up at the stars

And as I felt myself falling
Out into the vastness of the universe
I thought about things
I thought about the time
My grandma told me what to say
When you see the evening star
You all remember


Star light, star bright
First star I′ve seen tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight

The air is crystal clean up there
That's why you can see a million stars
Spread out across the sky
Almost like a gigantic cloud of stars

I remembered another night
In the black canyon of the Gunnison River
And we had our rubber boats pulled up on the bank
And turned over so we could sleep on ′em
And we were laying there looking up at the stars that night too

And one of the guys from New York City said
"Hey, look at all that smog in the sky
Smog clear out here in the sticks"
Somebody said
"Hey Joe, that's not smog
That's the Milky Way
That′s a hundred billion stars
It′s our galaxy"


And we saw the Northern Lights up there once
On the summit of Uncompahgre
14,309 Feet above sea level

They were like flames from some prehistoric campfire
Leaping and dancing in the sky and changing colors
Red, gold, blue, violet
Aurora borealis, the Northern Lights

It was the equinox
The changing seasons
Summer to fall
Young to old
Then to now

And then everyone was asleep
Except me
And as I saw the morning star come up over the mountain
I realized at last
That life is simply a collection of memories
But memories are like starlight
They live on forever