Boat of Millions of Years

Song Boat of Millions of Years
Artist Van Der Graaf Generator
Album I Prophesy Disaster

Lyrics

(Hammill)
Horus, the son of
Isis, lay in the marshes of
Buto, poisoned by
Set. She called out to the
High God Ra to kill this evil, that her child may live yet.
Casting aside her present fears she called out on the
Boat of Millions of years...
Ra came and saw and stopped the sun until he had cured the life of the innocent.
Horus the
Good lived in the
North, in lands of fertility and beauty but
Set stayed in the hard desert, to him belonged all drought and perversity.
While he sheds his tears beneath the
Boat of Millions of years he fights to kill the hawk, bearing with him evil and darkness.
But Horus lives with the sun.
Forever the battle rages, evil tries to kill the innocent baby and only
Osiris, the
Lord of the
Dead, can eventually save it.
So we must cast aside our future fears and call out on the
Boat of Millions of years.
The God of
Love is on our side and with him we shall not die... there's life in the
Sun! There's life in the
Sun! Only in violence is the cause lost: in peace, grey
Set can't kill our baby of love.