I’m sure there are lots of other stars you can see down there that you can’t see up here, but that’s the most striking. The Southern Cross is a constellation that you can only see from the Southern Hemisphere. ‘Cause the truth you might be runnin’ from is so small.īut it’s as big as the promise, the promise of a comin’ day. You understand now why you came this way. When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, Why? To see the world? To play concerts and make a fortune? Nope, he’s looking for someone (a woman- slash-girl, ha ha-either will do) who believes in everlasting love. So we’ve got Stills running around all over the place. Let’s skip the first half of the chorus for now, and stick with the part about the girl: Then we go immediately into the chorus, so you don’t really have a chance to think about what he just hit you in the face with… And that chorus is divided into two parts, the two different themes of the song, and they kind of cancel each other out, so you don’t really understand what he’s talking about at first. So Stills is off on his boat after getting dumped by his lady when he comes to a striking revelation: he’s a dick, and he didn’t deserve her. In a noisy bar in Avalon I tried to call youīut on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away I don’t know or care where Papeete or the Marquesas are. The first couple of verses are just your standard geographic setting, albeit with a South Pacific location. It’s no wonder I never listened to the lyrics before.

What the hell is this song about? Is this Stills dealing with some serious self-loathing? So I went back and listened again. This time, though, for some reason, when Stills sang, “we never failed to fail / it was the easiest thing to do,” it just hit me. The song has this feeling to it, but I had never listened to the words. Conjures up clear feelings of being at the Coast Guard Festival in Grand Haven, going on the Himalaya carnival ride which blasted music all the way to the Municipal Dock, where my parents kept their boat. It’s one of those tunes that always immediately transports me back to my childhood.

This song popped up on shuffle the other day. The “doo-doo-doo-da-doo” backing vocals are the best known segment of “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, with Stills singing Spanish lyrics in the background.Video: Crosby, Stills & Nash – “Southern Cross” The final section (the coda) is sung in Spanish, starting at 6:34 until the song concludes. He purposely paused between certain syllables in each line to obscure the lyrics. He does variate the lyrics when performing the song live but on the original recording below are the correct lyrics: Stephen Stills talked about it in an interview.

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