"The song's lyrics are about a man who sails the Pacific following a failed love affair. 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 Southern Cross is not visible from most of the Northern Hemisphere, the more tropical latitudes being the exception.) But his final consolation is music. ("I have my ship / And all her flags are a-flyin' / She is all that I have left[5] / And music is her name.") The last lyric is filled with sad irony as he tries to convince himself that he will eventually forget his former lover, although he knows this will never happen any more than he can forget the beauty of the Southern Cross. ("Somebody fine will come along and make me forget about loving you / And the Southern Cross.")" - wiki
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