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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Southern Cross
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“Southern Cross” is a song written by Rick Curtis, Michael Curtis (brothers), and Stephen Stills, and performed by American rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash. It was released in 1982 on the band’s Daylight Again album. Stephen Stills sings lead vocals throughout, with Graham Nash joining the final verse.
The song, which peaked at #18, is about a man who sails the world following a failed love affair. (Stills had previously taken a long boat trip following his own divorce.) During the voyage, the singer takes comfort in sailing (“We got eighty feet of the waterline. / Nicely making way.“), in the beauty of the sea, and particularly in the Southern Cross, a constellation by which sailors in the Southern Hemisphere have traditionally navigated. (The four brightest stars in the...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ And you know it will ... What heaven brought you and me ... Cannot be forgotten ♫
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