Question about greatest song ever written(Southern Cross)

Composed By:

Michael Curtis/Richard Curtis/Stephen Stills

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3004

I'll agree with you, Child. That song is also on my top ten list.

I chose that song to deconstruct for a high school english class.

One of my favorites as well.

I went for several years not knowing about the last verse...the one that starts with..."We cheated and we lied".

I used to record the radio while I was off doing something else, hoping to catch a song or two. I ran across the song by accident, kept it and didn't hear it again for a long time. When I first heard the last chorus, I thought they had made an extended version.

I've never heard it...

Southern Cross

Got out of town on a boat
Goin' to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach
Before a followin' sea.
She was makin' for the trades
On the outside,
And the downhill run
To Papeete.
Off the wind on this heading
Lie the Marquesas.
We got eighty feet of the waterline.
Nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon
I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized
Why twice you ran away.

Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.

When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'.
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin'
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.

Chorus

So we cheated and we lied
And we tested
And we never failed to fail
It was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine
Will come along
Make me forget about loving you.
At the Southern Cross.

bm

I still haven't heard it - anyone got a link to it?

gracias.

CSNY LINK

The quality is gut-wrenching, but it's all I could find.

That was bad quality indeed.

I like songs that have the sea in them. Southern Cross would be in my top 20. But behind "Red red wine" by UB40, or "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers, or "Downeaster Alexa" Billy Joel.

Great song.

Sailing by Christopher Cross is another....can't get much more peaceful than that one.